Welcome to HSPA!

Admission 2011 – the deadline to submit was December 2nd. Applications will be reviewed beginning in late January.

Applications for Admission in Fall 2013 will be available in September ’12 and the deadline to submit will be December 1, 2012.

Health Services Research Colloquium

The Spring Colloquium series begins on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 with Assistant Professor Andrew Ryan from Weill Cornell Medical College. A schedule of speakers may be found here.

The fall colloquium featured the following speakers: Lawrence Palinkas, Toby Douglas, Stephen Taplin, and Gail Wilensky.

Congratulations to our advanced students who received grants for dissertation research:

• Sahai Burrowes – Mentored Research Grant (campus fellowship)
• Ilana Graetz – Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) Fellowship
• Sarah Jane Holcombe – Society of Family Planning (SFP) Grant
• Peter Martelli – Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation via BEACON Collaborative
• Megan Vanneman – California Program on Access to Care (CPAC) Award

Carrie Colla, PhD ’10 received an Honorable Mention Dissertation award at the past AcademyHealth Annual Research meeting for her study: Effects of the San Francisco Employer Health Spending Mandate.

HSPA PhD Program is Ranked among the Nation’s Best

Health Services and Policy Analysis continues to be one of the top-ranked doctoral programs in the nation, based on the latest National Research Council (NRC) report.  The press release from Graduate Division has more  details.