Graduates of the Doctoral Concentration on Health Systems will have the following preparation:
- Using a systemic multidisciplinary approach in investigating issues
- Mastery of two disciplines and ability to integrate them together in their critical thinking, analysis of health system issues and evaluation of performance.
- Mastery and strong appreciation for evidence-based research and policy formulation.
- Ability to think critically —i.e. logic, abstraction and concepts, interrelationships, and evidence.
The doctoral program will center on a semester long Health Systems Core Seminar in the second year of course work. This seminar, taught by a multidisciplinary team of senior faculty will focus on the inter-disciplinary nature of health systems study and how ethics, politics and economics interact to shape policy and health system development. It will address, how the interactions of different components of a health system determine its performance and use evaluation sciences to study health system issues and evaluate system performance.