Prospective Students
The Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. See details here.
Department of Health Policy and Management
Compassionate leaders for complex challenges
The Gillings School's top-ranked Department of Health Policy and Management trains the next generation of leaders in management, policy making and research to address the complex challenges of health care delivery and produce cutting-edge research. We prepare our students to improve population health both domestically and globally. We are committed to ensuring that all people — irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, geographic origin, religion or economic resources — have access to high-quality health care services.
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Department Spotlight
We have nearly 450 students enrolled in certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs. Our full-time faculty members are experts in finance, economics, sociology, decision science, informatics, management and health policy. Additionally, more than 130 adjunct faculty members, with wide-ranging practice experience, contribute to teaching and learning.
Our Mission
To improve health for all by creating and translating knowledge into policy and practice and educating current and future health leaders, managers, policymakers, practitioners and researchers.
Our Vision and Values
High quality, accessible and affordable health systems that achieve optimal population health in North Carolina, across the United States and around the world.
Our Research Strengths
- Cancer care
- Rural health
- Mental health
- Comparative effectiveness
- Financial management and performance
- Health outcomes
- Organization and implementation science
- Quality of and access to care
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Recent News
For cancer patients who identify as sexual and gender minorities, there is a serious research gap
200,000 North Carolinians are in the 'Medicaid gap.' What does that mean?
Health Policy and Management Events
- Connect, Engage, Transform: Rural Community Partnerships January 24, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm