MPH45/Health Policy Field of Study Session

Anna Sinaiko (MPH45/HP Field of Study Leader)

Nancy Turnbull (MPH65/HP Field of Study Leader

August 23, 2016

This is Anna Sinaiko

MPH45/HP: Who You Are 37 Students

• 23 women and 14 men (based on application information)

• 20 United States citizens

• 8 US/dual citizens

• 9 citizens from outside US (including non-US duals)

• Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, Jamaica, Libya, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, Venezuela

Professional Backgrounds • 16 physicians

• 13 medical students

• Other degrees:

• JD, MA, MBA, MIM, SM and PhD in various fields

Who We Are: MPH Program • MPH is a school-wide degree program

• Governed by MPH Steering Committee

• Supported by school-wide Office of Education

• Health Policy Field of Study • Also supported by Health Policy and Management

(HPM) Department

• Key resources

• Office of Education staff (Kresge, G-29)

• Anne Occhipinti and Emily Davies

• HPM staff (Kresge, 3rd floor)

• Jen Moltoni and Liz Nolan

Course Planning and Registration: Basics • Good to plan an initial schedule for the entire year

• Your goal: 45 credits to graduate

• This week’s registration goal : A fall course schedule in my.harvard by Friday, August 26; blocks on registration of non-Health Policy students will be lifted onThursday (important for HPM 210 and 211)

• Add/Drop Deadline – Sept. 8 (Fall1 and Fall courses), Oct. 28 (Fall 2 courses)

• Registration for WinterSession and other Spring courses: December 8

• Ordinal/Letter Grade requirement: 32.5 credits

• Grade Point Average minimum requirement: 2.7 (out of 4.0)

• Audits (5 credit max/term, faculty discretion)

• Full Time Status (15 or more credits/term: important for students on visa)

MPH Program Requirements • School-wide MPH core requirements

• Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Health Services Administration (HSA), Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Ethics • HSA requirement met by your health policy

coursework • Waivers for prior course work possible

• Field of study-specific requirements for Health Policy

• Coursework and practicum and culminating experience

MPH School-wide Core • Biostatistics and Epidemiology:

• ID 201 is the appropriate option for most HP students

• BST 201 and EPI201/202 are the other option during academic year

• Courses require instructor permission

• 10 credits in total compared to 7.5 credits for ID 201

• Two ways to fulfill requirements in the other Public Health core disciplines

• ID 216 Critical Thinking and Action for Public Health Professionals

• Separate coursework in EH, SBS, and ethics

Ethics Options #1: ID 216 fulfills ethics requirement

#2: Separate for-credit course in ethics (3 options)

#3: Non-credit ethics module

• 5 on-line sessions (Weeks of October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31)

• One in-person session

• Friday, November 3 from 3:30-6 pm or Saturday, November 4 from 9-11:30

• More information and registration link in email from MPH Program

• Registration thru special link and not my.harvard

Some course conflicts to be aware of…. Environmental Health core: 5 course options

• ID 215 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology (Spring) conflicts with HPM 543 (Quantitative Methods in Program Evaluation, Spring2)

• EH 201 Introduction to Environmental Health (Fall2) conflicts with HPM 211 (Health Safety Net and Vulnerable Populations)

Social and Behavioral Sciences: 5 course options

• SBS 503 Behavioral Economics (Spring2) conflicts with HPM 543 (Quantitative Methods in Program Evaluation)

Health Policy Field of Study Competency Domains

• Knowledge of US Health System

• Policy Disciplinary Perspectives

• Economics, Political Analysis

• Choice of: health policy and vulnerable populations; community organizing; or law

• Analytical Methods: Quantitative Methods in Program evaluation or Decision science

• Communication

Knowledge of the U.S. Health System HPM 210: United States Health Policy (Fall1)

Professor John McDonough

• Head of Exec and Professional Education at Harvard Chan

• Former U.S. Senate staffer, Massachusetts state legislator, executive director of leading consumer health advocacy group

• Deeply involved in ACA design, passage and preservation

John’s Blog: http://healthstew.com/author/jemcd1/

Disciplinary Perspective: Economics

HPM 206: Economic Analysis (Fall)

Professor David Hemenway

• Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center

• Leading researcher on reducing firearm violence

Disciplinary Perspective: Political Analysis HPM 247: Political Analysis and Strategy (Spring at HKS)

Professor Bob Blendon

• Joint appointment at Harvard Kennedy School

• Senior Associate Dean for Policy Translation and Leadership Development

• Directs Harvard Opinion Research Program

Disciplinary Perspective: Option 1 Vulnerable Populations and Health Policy HPM 211: Health Care Safety Net and Vulnerable Populations (Fall2)

Professor Ben Sommers

• Health economist and practicing primary care doc

• Former Senior Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Disciplinary Perspective: Option 2 Consumer Organizing and Advocacy

HPM 520: Organizing Consumer and Community Interests in Health System(Fall2)

Susan Sherry

• Deputy Director, Community Catalyst, one of US’s leading national consumer health advocacy group

• 30 years of experience working in health policy and consumer advocacy and organizing

Disciplinary Perspective: Option 3: Law HPM 213: Public Health Law (Spring 2)

Ameet Sarpatwari, JD, PhD

• Epidemiologist

• Lawyer

• Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

HPM 544: Law and Clinical Medicine (Spring 2)

Allen Kachalia, MD/JD

• Chief Quality Officer and Vice President, Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

• Associate Professor, HMS and Harvard Chan

Analytical Methods for Policy: Option 1: Decision Analysis

RDS 280: Decision Analysis (Fall 2)

Professor Ankur Pandya

• Harvard Center for Health Decision Science

• Research focuses on simulation models to improve cardiovascular health

• Formerly Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College

Analytical Methods for Policy: Option 2: Program Evaluation

HPM 543: Quantitative Methods in Program Evaluation (Spring 2)

Nancy Beaulieu, PhD

• Research Associate, Department of Health Policy, HMS

• Widely published in quality improvement, evaluation of health plans, assessment of health program interventions

Other options for meeting analytical methods requirement

• Any RDS course

• RDS 280 (Fall2) is a pre-req for more advanced RDS classes

• Any intermediate or advanced biostats or epi course offered at Harvard Chan

• HPM 242 Data Analysis for Professionals (Spring1)

• GHP 525 Econometrics (Fall)

• SBS 281 (Fall2) Principles of Social and Behavioral Research

• HGSE EDU 052 (Spring) Applied Data Analysis

Practice and Culminating Experience ID 266: Practice and

Culminating Experience for Health Policy (Fall and Spring)

Amy Rosenthal, MPA and MPH(Harvard Chan)

• Director, External Affairs & Policy, Community Catalyst

• Experience as state legislative senior staffer, policy director of gubernatorial campaign, political consultant, and executive director of a policy foundation

Winter Session • January Winter Session: January 3 - 20, 2017 www.hsph.harvard.edu/registrar/winter-session

• Credits count in your spring semester total • Guidelines set by the MPH program

• You must participate in an activity that will enhance your academic experience

• Info sessions about Global Health WinterSession courses and Practicum field projects will be held in September

• Winter Session courses updated in Courses and Schedules around mid-October

• Planning ahead: Registration for Spring 2017 (and Winter Session) opens on Thursday, December 8th

If You Want to Waive a Course • School-wide Core requirements

• See MPH Curriculum Guide for contact and process for each requirement (i.e., BIO, EPI, EH, ETHICS, SBS)

• Your academic adviser cannot waive required core courses

• Field of Study requirements

• Contact the instructor of the course you want to waive

• Your academic adviser cannot waive FoS requirements

• If you waive a course, you do not get credit, just the ability to take more electives

• You must let Emily Davies and Liz Nolan know if you waive a course (including documentation of the approval)

Some tips • Don’t overload your course schedule

• 25 credits is generally the maximum you should take in a semester

• Think carefully about how to use your elective credits

• Save time for the “Other Curriculum”

• Student groups

• Lectures, talks, and seminars

• HPM’s monthly research seminar

• Leadership Studio and Voices from the Field

• Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) Challenges

Some tips • Consider participating in an interdisciplinary concentration

• Public Health Leadership

• Women, Gender, and Health

• Maternal and Child Health/Children, Youth, and Families

• Humanitarian Studies, Ethics, and Human Rights

• Epidemiology of Infectious Disease

• Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention

• Nutrition and Global Health

Lots of people and resources here to help!

Office of Education

• Emily Davies (edavies@hsph.harvard.edu)

• Anne Occhipinti (aocchipi@hsph.harvard.edu)

HPM Department • Jen Moltoni

(jmoltoni@hsph.harvard.edu)

• Liz Nolan (enolan@hsph.harvard.edu)

• Your faculty adviser

• Any HPM faculty member

Anna Sinaiko (asinaiko@hsph.harvard.edu)

Nancy Turnbull (nturnbul@hsph.harvard.edu)

Questions • Overarching questions that need to be

answered now?

• Concerns or specific issues?