Health Services Policy and Management (HSPM) is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the promotion of personal and public health through planning, organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating and evaluating health services.
Career opportunities exist in hospitals and clinics, state and federal health care agencies, physician practices, long-term care facilities, professional organizations, consulting firms, insurance companies, health departments, and hospital and medical associations. Individuals from a wide range of undergraduate majors can expect to succeed in health administration, given the many career opportunities the field offers.
The MPH program emphasizes the management of public health agencies and public sector health services. Graduates from the MHA program find jobs in finance and business development, operations management, information technology management, human resources, patient and community relations and other fields. The Ph.D. prepares students to conduct health services research and/or teach at a university level.
We offer seven advanced degrees related to health services policy and management. Each graduate degree has specific application deadlines and requirements.
Bankole Olatosi, assistant professor of health services policy and management, and Jiajia Zhang, professor of biostatistics, have been awarded more than $3.5 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A Rural and Minority Health Research Center study on hospital-based cancer treatment services over an nine-year period found disparities between rural and urban access to cancer treatment.
Research led by health services policy and management assistant professor Peiyin Hung has found that patients with continual care from the same primary care physician have lower death rates from cancer compared to individuals without continuity of care.
Researchers at the Rural and Minority Health Research Center found high levels of compliance with risk mitigation behaviors among all older adults; however, rural residents were consistently less likely than their urban counterparts to adhere to these recommendations.
Xiaoming Li and Bankole Olatosi, co-directors of the UofSC Big Data Health Science Center, are acquiring de-identified electronic health records for all COVID-19 patients in South Carolina to develop a statewide data-driven system to respond to the pandemic.
UofSC features 2021 Breakthrough Star Elizabeth Crouch, assistant professor of health services policy and management and deputy director of the Rural and Minority Health Research Center.
As an outcome rural health workshop they hosted last summer, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have produced a workbook (free to anyone with a .edu email address), Population Health in Rural American 2020: Proceedings of a Workshop.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will fund a new study led by Christina Andrews, an associate professor of health services policy and management, to examine the effectiveness of Medicaid-covered alcohol use disorder treatment.