Health Law, Policy & Management

As a national leader in training healthcare policymakers and managers, the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management (HLPM) helps students develop the expertise and tools they’ll need to meet the challenges facing today’s healthcare system and new ways to think about health policy. We offer rigorous, competency-based educational programs, including our CAHME-accredited Healthcare Management certificate. All of our degree programs feature an exceptional, multidisciplinary faculty that specializes in engaging teaching methods and active learning.

Faculty examine a broad range of challenges to American health and introduce fresh approaches to solving health problems by drawing on the social sciences, medicine, law, economics, politics, psychology, business practices, and the science of implementing evidence-based practices. We direct a wide variety of innovative research projects, including analyzing current Medicare and Medicaid outcomes; drug policy and regulation; innovative care delivery models (e.g., ACOs); hospital strategy, operations, and quality (e.g., hospital readmissions); health economics; the health effects of social policies; community-based behavioral, substance use, HIV, and mental healthcare delivery; the delivery of care to military veterans; and the ethics and legality of state and federal health policy by the country’s largest concentration of public health law faculty.

We address real-world problems by serving as members of city, state, national, and international committees, task forces, and health commissions, and publish widely in academic journals and in the wider media.

Academic Programs

Faculty and staff in the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management participate in interdisciplinary master’s and doctoral degrees. We offer the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Health Services & Policy Research and direct the Master of Public Health (MPH) Certificates in Healthcare Management, Health Policy and Law, and Human Rights and Social Justice.