MPH45/Health Management

Field of Study Session August 23, 2016

Sara Singer, Health Management Field of Study Leader ssinger@hsph.harvard.edu

MPH/HM: Who You Are

41 Students

• 16 women, 25 men

• 21 United States citizens

• 4 US/dual citizens

• 16 citizens from outside US

• Canada, China, France,

India, Malaysia, Nepal,

Nigeria, Peru, Singapore,

Syria, UK, Zimbabwe

Diverse Professional

Backgrounds

• 21 physicians

• 2 dentists

• 6 medical or dental

students

• MBA, MHA, MSN, MPA,

MPP, MA and MS in

various fields

Who We Are: MPH Program

• School-wide degree program

• Governed by MPH Steering Committee

• Supported by school-wide Office of Education

• MPH/Health Management Field of Study

• Also supported by Health Policy and Management

Department

• Key resources

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

• HPM staff (Kresge, 3rd floor)

Course Planning and Registration: Basics

• 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

• Meet with your adviser before Add-Drop Deadline

• Add/Drop Deadline: Sep 8 (Fall 1/Fall courses), Oct 28 (Fall 2 courses)

• Registration for Winter Session and other Spring courses: Dec 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

Management (HM)

• Coursework plus a practicum and culminating

experience

MPH School-wide Core

• Biostatistics and Epidemiology: two options

• ID 201 is the appropriate option for most HM students

• BST 201 and EPI 201/202 are the other option during

academic year

• Courses require instructor permission

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

• Other Public Health core disciplines: two options

• 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 Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31)

• One in-person session

• Friday, November 3 from 3:30-6 pm

• Saturday, November 4 from 9-11:30

• More information and registration link in email from

MPH Program

Course conflicts to note

• Environmental Health (2.5): 5 course options

• EH 201 Intro to Environmental Health conflicts with

HPM 220 Financial Management and Control

• Social and Behavioral Sciences (2.5): 5 course

options

• SBS 281 Principles of Social and Behavioral

Research conflicts with HPM 557 Innovation and

Entrepreneurship in Health Care

Health Management Field of Study

Competency Domains

• Management Disciplines

• Finance, accounting, operations, organizational

behavior, marketing, strategy

• Analytical Methods: data analysis

• Application to real world problems: process

improvement and innovation

Disciplinary Perspective: Financial and

Cost Accounting HPM 219: Financial Transactions & Analysis (Fall 1)

Dee Dee Chen MS ‘07,

Sam Levitt ScD CFA,

• DDC – Benefits Manager, MGH

• SL – Financial analyst/consultant

HPM 220: Financial Mgmt & Control (Fall 2)

Rick Siegrist, MS MBA

• President & CEO: Cambria Health, Press Ganey,

• PatientFlow Technology, WebMD, HealthShare Technology

Disciplinary Perspective: Strategy

HPM 231: Competitive

Strategy (Fall 2)

Nancy Kane, DBA (HBS)

• Associate Dean, Case-based

Teaching and Learning

• Director, Health Care

Management Program

• Medicare Payment Advisory

Commission (2005-11)

• MA Special Commission on

Health Care Cost Containment

(2009)

Disciplinary Perspective: Organizational

Behavior HPM 539: Health Care

Organizations &

Organizational Behavior

(Spr 2)

Laurie Pascal, MBA MPH

Harvard Chan

• VP Business Dev & Planning,

BIDMC

• Tufts, BankBoston

• Ohio Department of Health

• US Public Health Service

Disciplinary Perspective: Marketing

HPM 233: Strategic

Marketing Mgmt in Health

Systems (Spr)

Vicki Amalfitano, MBA MSW

• VP Marketing and Planning, BWH

• VP Marketing and Strategic

Planning, Albany Medical Center

Disciplinary Perspective or Application:

Operations HPM 232: Operations Management in

Service Delivery Organization (Spr 1)

Eugene Litvak, PhD

• President & CEO, Institute for Healthcare

Optimization

HPM 516: Health Care Quality and Safety

(Spr 2)

Tom Sequist, MD MPH, PhD

• Chief Quality & Safety Officer, Partners

HealthCare

HPM TBD: Methods & Tools for QI (Spr 2)

Bill Berry, MD MPA, MPH

• Chief Science Officer, Ariadne Labs

Lindsay Martin, MSPH

• Executive Director, IHI

Methods: Data Analysis

HPM 242: Data Analysis for

Professionals (Spr 1)

Amy Cohen, EdM, and Susan

Madden, MS ‘84

• AC - Director of Educational

Technology

• SM – VP Product Analytics, Press

Ganey, and Mgr, Clinical Data

Policy and Analysis, State

Division Health Care Finance and

Policy

Application: Innovation

HPM 557: Innovation and

Entrepreneurship in Health

Care (Fall 2)

Rick Siegrist, MS MBA (HBS ‘82)

• Director of Innovation and

Entrepreneurship

• Co-director, Health Care

Management Program

• President & CEO: Cambria Health,

Press Ganey, PatientFlow

Technology, WebMD, HealthShare

Technology

Practice and Culminating Experience

ID 267: Practice and

Culminating Experience for

Health Management (Fall

and Spring)

Bill Bean, MBA PhD, MPH ’11

President, William Bean Consulting,

strategy formulation and

implementation of rapid change in

global corporations, NGOs and

governments

2016 Student Mentoring Award

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 Winter Session courses and

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

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 is most popular for HPM

• 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

People and resources are 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

Sara Singer(ssinger@hsph.harvard.edu)

Questions

• Overarching questions that need to be

answered?

• Concerns or specific questions?