PhD, International Health
Abdul Ghaffar, MD, PhD '01, MPH
"A degree from Hopkins can take you far. You'll have the opportunity to develop lifelong relationships with faculty and peers that can help you grow throughout your career."-- Dr. Ghaffar, Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO
The Health Systems Program is a global leader in research, teaching, and strategic collaborations to achieve accessible, cost-effective and healthy outcomes across the lifespan for the world’s families, communities and nations—especially the poorest and most vulnerable.
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As a program, we are flourishing. In the last 5 years, the number of active grants per year has grown by 50%, helping us to to enhance our capacity to provide the best possible research and teaching.
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Health Systems
Director, Dr. Sara Bennett
The PhD program is designed to equip students with the technical skills for carrying out cutting-edge health policy and systems research and preparing them to take leadership positions in global health settings.
Through a combination of coursework and research mentoring, graduates will have a firm understanding of the wide array of methods for health systems research, including
- Ethical analyses exploring equity and fairness in health systems
- Evaluation
- Implementation science
- Health economics and financing
- Health outcomes and burden of disease methods
- Health policy analysis
- Health systems research and systems thinking
- Quantitative methods (biostatistics)
- Qualitative methods
Through the program, students have the opportunity to gain exposure to a variety of content areas including injury prevention and control, maternal, neonatal and child health, non-communicable diseases, primary health care, and refugee and humanitarian assistance.