Accelerated M.B.A./M.P.H. Program in Health Care Management
The Accelerated M.B.A./M.P.H. Program in Health Care Management enables students to earn an M.B.A. degree from the Yale School of Management (SOM) and an M.P.H. degree from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) in a twenty-two-month integrated program. The program is designed to provide future health care leaders with the interdisciplinary training and perspective needed to address complex and multidimensional industry challenges.
Students begin the program with an intensive summer session at YSPH, where they complete M.P.H. core courses in biostatistics, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences. The first year is spent at SOM, and students take courses at both schools during the final year.
Curriculum
In this program, students complete a minimum of 14 course units at YSPH and 52 course units at SOM, which include 34.5 units of core requirements and 17.5 elective course units.
Yale School of Public Health
Core Requirements
BIS 515 | Accelerated Biostatistics | 2 |
CDE 515 | Accelerated Epidemiology | 1 |
EPH 100 | Professional Skills Series | 0 |
EPH 510 | Health Policy and Health Care Systems | 1 |
EPH 513 | Major Health Threats: Ethics and Practice | 1 |
SBS 505 | Accelerated Social and Behavioral Foundations of Health | 1 |
Health Care Management Requirements
HPM 570 | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Decision-Making | 1 |
HPM 583 | Methods in Health Services Research | 1 |
HPM 688 | Managing Health Care in Complex Systems | 1 |
MGT 698 | Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Economics | 4 |
MGT 699 | ColloquiumHealthcareLeadership (2 terms) | 1 |
1 to 2 electives at YSPH | 1–2 |
One Global Health Leadership elective 1 | 1 |
1 | Chosen from the Global Health Concentration list on the YSPH website: https://ysph.yale.edu/myysph/curriculum/mph/ghc/electives/. |
One of the following: | ||
BIS/SBS 640 | User-Centered Design of Digital Health Tools | 1 |
HPM 548 | Pharmaceutical Industry and Public Policy | 1 |
HPM 595 | Food and Drug Administration Law | 1 |
MGT 654 | Data-Driven Value Creation in Healthcare and Life Sciences | 2 |
MGT 657 | Creating Healthcare and Life Science Ventures | 2 |
MGT 663 | Innov,Invt,&NewFrontiersinMed | 2 |
MGT 668 | Narratives in Health | 2 |
MGT 995 | Sustainable Innovation in Healthcare | 2 |
One of the following: | ||
EMD/SBS 588 | Health Justice Practicum | 1 |
EPH 500 | Public Health Practicum | 1 |
EPH 501 | U.S. Health Justice Concentration Practicum | 1 |
EPH 521 | Applied Practice Experience | 0 |
EPH 555 | Clinic in Climate Justice and Public Health | 1 |
HPM 555 | Health Policy or Health Care Management Practicum 1 | 1 |
HPM 556 | Advanced Health Policy Practicum | 1 |
1 | Specifically, students must complete the Health Care Management Practicum. |
Yale School of Management
Core Requirements
MGT 401 | Managing Groups & Teams | 1 |
MGT 402 | Basics of Accounting | 2 |
MGT 403 | Probability Modeling & Statistics | 2 |
MGT 404 | Basics of Economics | 2.5 |
MGT 405 | Modeling Managerial Decisions | 2 |
MGT 408 | Introduction to Negotiation | 1 |
MGT 410 | Competitor | 2 |
MGT 411 | Customer | 2 |
MGT 412 | Investor | 2 |
MGT 413 | State & Society | 2 |
MGT 417 | Power & Politics | 2 |
MGT 418 | Global Virtual Teams | 2 |
MGT 420 | The Workforce | 2 |
MGT 421 | Innovator | 2 |
MGT 422 | Operations Engine | 2 |
MGT 423 | Sourcing & Managing Funds | 2 |
MGT 425 | The Global Macroeconomy | 2 |
MGT 430 | The Executive | 2 |
International Experience (during spring break) | 0 |
Competencies
Core Curriculum
The core curriculum of the M.P.H. program focuses on competencies in evidence-based approaches to public health (1–4), public health and health care systems (5–6), planning and management to promote health (7–11), policy in public health (12–15), leadership (16–17), communication (18–20), interprofessional practice (21), and systems thinking (22). Upon completing the core curriculum, the student will be able to:
- Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice
- Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate
- Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice
- Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings
- Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels
- Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health
- Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs
- Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention
- Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management
- Select methods to evaluate public health programs
- Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence
- Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes
- Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations
- Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity
- Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decision-making
- Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges
- Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors
- Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation
- Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content
- Perform effectively on interprofessional teams
- Apply systems-thinking tools to a public health issue
Health Care Management Program
Upon receiving an M.P.H. degree in the Accelerated M.B.A./M.P.H. Program in Health Care Management, the student will be able to:
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evaluate health care financing, regulatory, and delivery systems;
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critique empirical research intended to evaluate the causal impact of health policies and health system reforms;
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utilize statistical analysis skills to conduct health systems and policy research;
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apply management problem-solving skills to improve functioning of organizations and agencies in health systems; and
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identify questions in public health policy and practice that may be amenable to model-based approaches.