MPH45/Health ManagementField of Study Session

August 22, 2017

Linda Cyr, Health Management Field of Study Leader lcyr@hsph.harvard.edu

Presented by:William Bean, MBA PhD, MPH ’11,

Instructor

MPH/HM: Who You Are

34 Students• 18 women, 16 men

• 19 United States citizens

• 1 US/dual citizen

• 14 citizens from outside US

• Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, Venezuela

• 6 medical/dental students

Who We Are: MPH Program• School-wide degree program

• Governed by MPH Steering Committee

• Supported by school-wide Office of Education

• MPH/Health Management Field of Study• Also supported by Health Policy and Management

Department

• Key resources

• Office of Education staff (Kresge, G-29)

• HPM staff (Kresge, 3rd floor)

Course Planning and Registration: Basics

• Plan an initial schedule for the entire year• Your goal: 45 credits to graduate• This week’s registration goal: A fall course schedule in

my.harvard by August 25, 2017.• Meet with your adviser before Add-Drop Deadline• Add/Drop Deadline: Sep 7 (Fall 1/Fall courses), Oct 27 (Fall 2

courses)• Registration for Winter Session and other Spring courses: Dec 7 • Pass/Fail grade limit: 12.5 credits• Grade Point Average: minimum requirement 2.7 (out of 4.0)• Audits: 5 credit max/term, faculty discretion• Full Time Status: 15 or more credits/term (important for students

on visa)

MPH Program Requirements• School-wide MPH core requirements

• Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Ethics • HSA requirement met by your health policy

coursework• Waivers for prior course work possible

• Field of study-specific requirements for Health Management (HM)• Coursework plus a practicum and culminating

experience

MPH School-wide Core• Biostatistics and Epidemiology: two options

• ID 201 is the appropriate option for most HM students

• BST 201 and EPI201/202 are the other option during academic year

• Courses require instructor permission

• 10 credits in total compared to 7.5 credits for ID 201

• Other Public Health core disciplines: two options• ID 216 Critical Thinking and Action for Public Health

Professionals

• Separate coursework in EH, SBS, and ethics

Ethics Options#1: ID 216 fulfills ethics requirement#2: Separate for-credit course in ethics (3 options)#3: Non-credit ethics module

• 5 on-line sessions • Released on the Tuesday of each week: October 3,

10, 17, 24, and 31st

• AND one in-person session:• Friday, November 3 at 3:45pm – 6:15pm, or• Saturday, November 4 at 9am – 11:30am• More information and registration link in email

from MPH Program

Health Management Field of Study Competency Domains

• Management Disciplines

• Finance, accounting, operations, organizational behavior, marketing, strategy

• Analytical Methods: data analysis

• Application to real world problems: process improvement and innovation

Disciplinary Perspective: Financial and Cost Accounting

HPM 219: Financial Transactions & Analysis (Fall 1)

C. Terry Nichols,

• Financial analyst/consultant

HPM 220: Financial Mgmt & Control (Fall 2)

Rick Siegrist, MS MBA

• President & CEO: Cambria Health, Press Ganey,

• PatientFlow Technology, WebMD, HealthShare Technology

Disciplinary Perspective: Strategy

HPM 231: Competitive Strategy (Fall 2)

Nancy Kane, DBA (HBS)• Associate Dean, Case-based

Teaching and Learning

• Director, Health Care Management Program

• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (2005-11)

• MA Special Commission on Health Care Cost Containment (2009)

ORDRPH 270 (Fall 1): Strategic Management in Global Settings

William Bean, MBA PhD, MPH ’11

• Instructor, SPH

• President, William Bean Consulting

Disciplinary Perspective: Organizational Behavior

HPM 539: Health Care Organizations & Organizational Behavior (Spring 2)Laurie Pascal, MBA MPH Harvard Chan• VP Business Dev & Planning,

BIDMC

• Tufts, BankBoston

• Ohio Department of Health

• US Public Health Service

Disciplinary Perspective: Marketing

HPM 233: Strategic Marketing Mgmt in Health Systems (Spring)

Vicki Amalfitano, MBA MSW• VP Marketing and Planning,

BWH

• VP Marketing and Strategic Planning, Albany Medical Center

ORHPM 282: Innovative Problem Solving & Design Thinking in Healthcare (Spring 2)

Linda Cyr, PhD, MS• Health Management Field of

Study Director

• Consultant

Disciplinary Perspective: Operations/Process Improvement

CHOOSE ONE OPTION:HPM 232: Operations Management in Service Delivery Organization (Spring 2)Eugene Litvak, PhD• President & CEO, Institute for Healthcare

Optimization

HPM 516: Health Care Quality and Safety (Spring 2)Tom Sequist, MD MPH, PhD• Chief Quality & Safety Officer, Partners

HealthCare

HPM 268: Methods & Tools for QI (Fall 2)Bill Berry, MD MPA, MPH• Chief Science Officer, Ariadne Labs

Lindsay Martin, MSPH• Executive Director, IHI

Application: Innovation

Section HPM 557.1 (W)– taught by Rick Siegrist, MS, MBA (HBS ‘82)

• Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Co-director, Health Care Management Program; Director, DrPH Program

HPM 557: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Care (Fall 2)

Section HPM 557.2 (T, TH)– taught by Teresa Chahine, ScD

• Program Leader, Social Entrepreneurship, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Practice and Culminating ExperienceID 267: Practice and Culminating Experience for Health Management (Fall and Spring)Bill Bean, MBA PhD, MPH ’11 Instructor, Strategy formulation and implementation of rapid change in global corporations, NGOs and governments

Louise Weed, MS’11Director, Medical Management and Improvement, Codman Square Health Center

2016 Student Mentoring Award

Winter Session• January Winter Session: January 2 - 19, 2018

www.hsph.harvard.edu/registrar/winter-session

• Credits count in your spring semester total• Guidelines set by the MPH program

• You must participate in an activity that will enhance your academic experience

• Info sessions about Global Health Winter Session courses and field projects will be held in September

• Winter Session courses updated in Courses and Schedules around mid-October

• Planning ahead: Registration for Spring 2018 (and Winter Session) opens on Thursday, December 7th

To Waive a Course

• School-wide Core requirements• See MPH Curriculum Guide for contact and process for each

requirement (i.e., BIO, EPI, EH, ETHICS, SBS)

• Your academic adviser cannot waive required core courses

• Field of Study requirements• Contact the Field of Study Director (Linda Cyr)

• Your academic adviser cannot waive FoS requirements

• If you waive a course, you do not get credit, just the ability to take more electives

• You must let Emily Davies and Liz Nolan know if you waive a course (including documentation of the approval)

Some tips• Don’t overload your course schedule

• 25 credits is generally the maximum you should take in a semester

• Think carefully about how to use your elective credits

• Save time for the “Other Curriculum”

• Student groups

• Lectures, talks, and seminars

• HPM’s monthly research seminar

• Leadership Studio and Voices from the Field

• Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) Challenges

Some tips

• Consider participating in an interdisciplinary concentration • Public Health Leadership is most popular for HPM

• Women, Gender, and Health

• Maternal and Child Health/Children, Youth, and Families

• Humanitarian Studies, Ethics, and Human Rights

• Epidemiology of Infectious Disease

• Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention

• Nutrition and Global Health

People and resources are here to help!Office of Education

• Emily Davies, Kresge G-29 (edavies@hsph.harvard.edu)

• Anne Occhipinti, Kresge G-29 (aocchipi@hsph.harvard.edu)

HPM Department

• Liz Nolan, Kresge 336 (enolan@hsph.harvard.edu)

• Jen Moltoni, Kresge 338 (jmoltoni@hsph.harvard.edu)

Field of Study Leader: Linda Cyr (lcyr@hsph.harvard.edu)

Liz (left) & Jen (right)Emily (left) & Anne (right)

Questions

• Overarching questions that need to be answered?

• Concerns or specific questions?