Interested in healthcare quality? The HIV pandemic? Health disparities among minorities? The FDA and drug safety?
Students in the Secondary Field in Health Policy, a program sponsored by the Harvard Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, study:
•Factors shaping health and health care, including incidence and causes of disease; value of medical treatments and other technological innovations that promote health; inequalities in access and treatment; quality of health care and medical errors; and financing of health care.
•Policies that address health in modern society, including provision and regulation of health insurance by nations, control and taxation of tobacco and other drugs by state and federal governments, and regulation of technology (pharmaceuticals and medical innovation).
Students gain deeper familiarity with analytic and empirical techniques developed in a variety of fields – anthropology, economics, ethics, government, history (including history of science), psychology, and sociology. The mix of vital and fascinating subject material with theory and methods makes health policy a combination of the theoretical and the applied.
We encourage you to inform us as soon as you have decided to pursue the Secondary Field in Health Policy, so we can add you to our email list. You will be invited to program dinners with guest speakers who work in the field of health care; receive notices of relevant research assistant, internship, and employment and funding opportunities; and receive information about courses and important policies.
Freshmen and first-semester sophomores can inform the program of their intent to pursue the Secondary Field in Health Policy by submitting this online form. Students who have already declared a concentration should notify the program by using the Secondary Fields Web Tool.
For more information, please contact Debbie Whitney, Associate Director of the Harvard Undergraduate Program in Health Policy.