The Department of Health Policy and Management seeks to improve health and prevent disease and disability through the education of future public health leaders and through research on the causes and possible remedies of significant public health problems facing our nation and other industrialized countries.  The Department seeks to improve our capacity to identify policy options that promote and protect the health status of populations; strategies that improve access to health and preventive services, particularly among the most vulnerable; methods that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of health care for medical and mental illnesses; and models for improving the financing, organization and delivery of preventive and curative health services.