HRP-PHD - Health Policy (PhD)

Graduate Degrees summarizes university requirements for the PhD degree.

Health Policy investigates how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors affect the accessibility, quality, and cost of health care and, ultimately, our health and well-being. Stanford Health Policy offers a PhD program that promises to educate students who will be scholarly leaders in the field of health policy and will be highly knowledgeable about the theoretical and empirical approaches that can be applied in the development of improvements in health policy and the health care system. The curriculum offers courses across a wide range of health policy areas, including health economics, health insurance and government program operation, health financing, international health policy and economic development, cost-effectiveness analysis and the evaluation of new technologies, health law and ethics, health systems operations, relevant statistical and methodological approaches, and health policy issues related to public health concerns like obesity and chronic disease.

See the program’s website for additional program information, including (but not limited to) program and course requirements, faculty lists, admissions information, requirements, and deadlines. Address inquiries to the Health Policy Admissions Team at hrpadmissions@stanford.edu.

Applications to the program must be submitted through the Stanford Graduate Admissions website by clicking Apply Now.