Health Management & Policy (PSU)

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Curriculum Information

Program length: 61 Credits

Required OMPH Core Courses (16 Credits)

• Epidemiology Survey (3 credits)
• Introduction to Biostatistics (4 credits)
• Health Systems Organization (3 credits)
• Principles of Health Behavior (3 credits)
• Concepts of Environmental Health (3 credits)

Health Management and Policy Track Requirements (15 Credits)

• Organizational Behavior in Health Services Organizations (3 Credits)
• Strategic Management in Health Care Organizations (3 Credits)
• Health Policy (3 Credits)
• Values and Ethics in Health (3 Credits)
• Introduction to Health Economics (3 Credits)

Health Management and Policy Electives (Select 12 Credits; Other PSU HMP courses may be selected with consent of advisor)

• Health Care Law and Regulation (3 Credits)
• Financial Management of Health Services (3 Credits)
• Continual Improvement in Health Care (3 Credits)
• Program Evaluation and Management in Health Services (3 Credits)
• Health Administration (3 Credits)
• Health Care Information Systems Management (3 Credits)

Other Electives (Select 12 Credits; Courses may be selected at the partner campuses with consent of advisor)

• Leadership and Governance in Health Care (3 Credits)
• Advanced Health Policy (3 Credits)
• Grantwriting for Nonprofit Organizations (3 Credits)
• Nonprofit Field Study in Oaxaca, Mexico (3 Credits)
• Creating Collaborative Communities (3 Credits)
• Human Resource Management in the Public Sector (3 Credits)
• Volunteerism and Volunteer Management (3 Credits)
• Community Organizing (3 Credits)
• Qualitative Research Design (3 Credits)
• Media Advocacy and Public Health (3 Credits)
• Women and Holistic Health (3 Credits)
• Women's Reproductive Health (3 Credits)
• National Long-term Care Policy (3 Credits)
• Perspectives on Aging (3 Credits)
• Politics of the News (3 Credits)
• Concepts of Community Development (3 Credits)
• Epidemiology II (OHSU) (3 Credits)
• International Health Epidemiology (OHSU) (3 Credits)

Organizational Experience (6 Credits)

All HMP track students will be required to complete a minimum six credit organizational experience at or near the end of their coursework. That experience will provide the student with the opportunity to apply what he/she has learned in the classroom to an organizational setting.