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; the DrPH program prepares students to assume senior positions in teaching, policy and/or management in public or private research institutes or government.
We offer nine advanced degrees related to health services policy and management. Each graduate degree has specific application deadlines and requirements.
After he earns a Ph.D., Nabil plans to pursue postdoctoral research training in health policy and management. Ultimately, he will return to Bangladesh to teach and conduct research in an academic setting or join an international public health organization.
HSPM researchers Rifat Haider and Mahmud Khan have collaborated with partners in Bangladesh to determine if the country’s efforts to reduce inequity in maternal health care utilization have been successful.
Matthew Yuen has won the Outstanding Student Abstract Award from the South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health for the 2nd year in a row. It’s the third year in a row for a HSPM student and the fifth year in a row for an Arnold School to win the award.
Shannon Palm recently completed a practicum with Children’s Trust of South Carolina, where she played a critical role in getting their Racial Equity Impact Assessment tool off the ground.
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the first Discover USC showcase included more than 1,000 projects from students, postdoctoral fellows, and medical scholars. Arnold School students were well represented among the presenters.