Department of Health Management & Policy

The Department of Health Management and Policy has been ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report in every poll since 1993.

Welcome to the Department of Health Management and Policy! We offer exciting and challenging degree programs for gaining knowledge and skills in health services management and health policy. Our state-of-the art curricula are taught by a world-renowned faculty with active research agendas. We provide a rigorous, multidisciplinary course of study that prepares students to meet the changing demands of health care, public health, and health policy environments.

Our recognition as North America's leading program confirms the contributions that HMP graduates make to the organization and management of the nation's public health and health care systems. HMP alumni hold key leadership positions in local, state and federal government agencies, in health insurance plans, in special programs for the poor and disadvantaged, in health policy research and advocacy organizations, and in hospitals, clinics, HMOs, and health centers in the U.S. and abroad.

Health Management and Policy Mission Statement

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In the News

Applying Research to Improve Our Health System: 50 Years of Michigan Excellence, May 10-11. Registration info

Cost increases matter to health plan participants according to findings of a study http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20287-when-health-insurance-costs-rise-slightly-people-still-shop-around
by Professors Buchmueller, Grazier, Hirth, and Okeke.

Carmen R. Greene, M.D. named to NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee

SPH and the School of Information partnering to offer graduate program in health informatics

Doctoral student, David Jones publishes article in The New England Journal of Medicine

Second-year HMSA students Brad Stulberg and John Miner outline the lessons they believe US healthcare can learn from the movie Moneyball

Summer Enrichment Program receives $4.2 million grant to recruit minority undergrads.

Faculty Spotlight

Professor Christy Harris Lemak, PhD '98, will speak at Ohio State University of Thursday, March 1, as part of the Health Services Management and Policy (HSMP) seminar series. She will address the topic "From Partisanship to Partnership: Evaluation of a Statewide Physician Incentive Program in Michigan".