Health Policy & Management ·
Nursing Home Management and Public Health Crises
SPA professors and PhD candidate consider how regulation, management, and ownership affected COVID-19 outcomes in nursing homes.
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Latest Health Policy & Management News
Health Policy & Management ·
Fetal Personhood and Advance Healthcare Directives
SPA professor and graduate student expose unseen legal and health consequences of recent attacks on reproductive rights.
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Social Policy ·
Generation Z and Deaths of Despair
SPA professor reviews alarming national suicide trends, including an unprecedented rise among young people, and looks at possible drivers.
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Health Policy & Management ·
Representative Bureaucracy Contagion Effects in Health Care
SPA researchers show that a higher proportion of female physicians in the ER improves heart attack outcomes for women, even without doctor/patient gender matching.
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Policy Briefs
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Gender-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Based Discrimination in Mental Health Care
Racial and sexual minorities may face discrimination in accessing health care, particularly mental health resources, since mental health providers have more discretion over accepting patients.
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Meet our Health Policy Faculty
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Alison Jacknowitz Interim Dean, School of Public Affairs SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Anna Amirkhanyan Professor SPA | Public Administration
Brandyn Churchill Assistant Professor SPA | Public Administration
Claudia Persico Associate Professor SPA | Public Administration
Dave Marcotte Interim Senior Associate Dean SPA | Public Administration
Erdal Tekin Charles W. Fotis, Sr. and Dorothea G. Fotis Family Distinguished Professor of Health Policy SPA | Public Administration
Jeff Gill Distinguished Professor SPA | Government
Jessica Waters Assistant Professor SPA | Justice, Law & Criminology
Julie Marie Baldwin Research Professor SPA | Justice, Law & Criminology
Kenneth Meier Distinguished Scholar in Residence SPA | Public Administration
Nathan Favero Provost Associate Professor SPA | Public Administration
Taryn Morrissey Professor, DPAP Chair, and Associate Dean of Research SPA | Public Administration
SPA Degrees in Health Policy & Management
Master of Public Administration
Our program gives you the tools to meet complex public challenges with strong, capable leadership.
Master of Public Policy
This program shapes policy analysts and changemakers of the future.
PhD Public Administration & Policy
Produce methodologically sound, socially relevant research that makes important contributions to knowledge and theory.
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