Health Services Research Graduate Certificate

Required Courses

CRES 830	Health and Bioinformatics	3
CRES 831	Health Policy and Systems Thinking	3
LDRS 507	Public Policy	3
CRES 832	Healthcare Outcome Measurement and Quality Improvement	3
Total Credit Hours:		12

Outcomes

By the end of this certificate, students will be able to:

1. Apply the historical context of domestic and international health care systems and health policy, including specific examples of past health policy successes and failures, to current health policy challenges.
2. Synthesize how healthcare cost, quality, and access and the social determinants of health interact within the US healthcare system and understand how to control for these variables in health services research.
3. Identify the similarities and differences between health informatics and bioinformatics and identify the different and appropriate statistical strategies available for the analysis of each.
4. Access, download and analyze multiple healthcare datasets to answer various empirical and epidemiological questions and analyze the economic impact of disease and/or disease treatment on a specific global population.