The Program in Clinical Effectiveness is designed for the clinician seeking the quantitative and analytic skills needed for clinical research or interested in health care administration. 

This program begins with an intensive seven-week,15-credit summer program, which contains summer-long core courses in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. All participants also select two half-summer courses from offerings in Current Issues in Health Policy, Decision Analysis in Clinical Research, Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health: Health Care Delivery, Improving Quality in Health Care, Linear and Longitudinal Regression, Medical Informatics, Methods for Decision Making in Medicine, Research with Large Databases, and Survey of Methods and Applications in Health Services Research. For students with previous experience, second level courses are also offered in Analytic Issues of Clinical Epidemiology, Principles of Clinical Trials, and Survival Methods in Clinical Research. 

Students are limited to 15 credits for a single summer but can take additional courses in a second summer. Qualified participants may also take courses during the regular academic year at the Harvard School of Public Health. (See Additional Coursework and Degree options)