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<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nWelcome to HLPM.<\/p>\n
We have lived through a pandemic using laws, policies, and management, the concerns of this department. During these unprecedented years for public health, our incredible faculty continued to find ways to do its important, impactful work\u2014teaching and mentoring students, serving our communities, influencing the health of the nation by providing research, countering health misinformation and leading public discussion in areas of pressing national concern.<\/p>\n
In my six years leading the Health Law, Policy & Management department, we have hired 23 new faculty members\u2014economists, lawyers, psychologists, health care operations experts, leaders in health services\u2014who bring new methods, ideas, and energy to our School of Public Health. We believe that the mix of disciplines captured in our department\u2019s name is reflected in the interdisciplinary products of our research and teaching. Our new faculty keeps HLPM as heterogeneous, eclectic and productive as ever, recently chosen as the #6 best policy department in the country by US News and World Report. All our effort is done with any eye on improving the health of vulnerable and marginalized populations, in keeping with the mission of our School of Public Health and the adjacent Boston Medical Center.<\/p>\n
As we\u2019ve grown, we\u2019ve re-committed to our particular research strengths. Our renowned faculty is nationally prominent in five arenas: Medicaid policy, health economics, social policy, substance use, and health law. Our Medicaid Policy Lab<\/a>\u2014led by Megan Cole, Sarah Gordon and Paul Shafer\u2014is one-of-a-kind unit evaluating the impacts of policy changes and innovative care delivery models on health insurance coverage, access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes to advance health equity.\u00a0The\u00a0Partner Evidence-based Policy Resource Center<\/a>\u00a0(PEPReC) for the Veterans Hospital Administration\u2014led by Austin Frakt, Melissa Garrido and Steve Pizer– studies demand and access to care for veterans. The\u00a0Healthy Minds Study<\/a>, the largest, most comprehensive study of mental health, health behaviors, and health service use on U.S. college campuses, is led by Sarah Lipson. HLPM faculty are among the lead investigators of the historic, $89 million, four-state\u00a0Healing Communities Study<\/a>, which is bending the curve on opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts and beyond. Our health law faculty have been leaders in public health law in the areas of the Second Amendment and gun violence, reproductive justice, and contagious disease control, and as always, human rights and ethics. Their work is practical: explaining the divide between constitutional theory and the real-world health implications of courts\u2019 decisions.<\/p>\n The department houses two of the school\u2019s most popular MPH certificates–Health Policy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Health Care Management<\/a>–as well as the unique\u00a0Health Law certificate<\/a>. These certificates attract large numbers of BUSPH students for good reason: our faculty are superior teachers and mentors across the 46 courses we offer. The CAHME accredited Health Care Management program was rated 19th<\/sup> best health care management program by US News and World Report in 2023 competing against business schools and health administration programs. Chris Louis, HCM director, recently won the Educational Innovation teaching award at Boston University. \u00a0Our department faculty also leads the core curriculum course PH719, \u201cHealth Systems, Law and Policy,\u201d and therefore has contact with every MPH student; its instructors have won the BUSPH core Teacher-Of-The-Year twice in the last four years, led by Michael Ulrich and Liz McCuskey. \u00a0Our graduates take positions in government, consulting, NGOs, academia, pharmaceutical industry and 99% are immediately employed following graduation.<\/p>\n We have a top-notch doctoral training program. We have two T32 training grants in the department, one from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) focused on substance use, infectious disease, HIV and policy implementation. The second, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), focuses on health policy, quality and equity in the care of vulnerable populations. Doctoral students also work on PEPReC projects related to veteran health outcomes and workforce capacity and with individual faculty throughout the department.<\/p>\n Department faculty created and lead two school-wide seminar series that attract faculty and trainees from across the community.\u00a0 These quantitative and qualitative methods series provide BUSPH with a meeting place for state-of-the-art methodological discussions and review of work-in-progress. Our annual Charles Donahue Lecture brings a national figure to speak on pressing issues related to health access, policy, and management issues. Our DEIJ efforts involve staff, students and faculty working together to create the best and most inclusive workplace possible, always with an eye on improvement.<\/p>\n Our faculty are widely honored for scholarship and leadership. They hold grants and contracts not only from National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and WT Grant, but also from Starbucks, Google, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and more.\u00a0 Megan Cole was a Peter Paul Career Development Professorship, the university\u2019s top award for junior faculty. David Jernigan has served on a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine committee. Nicole Huberfeld and colleagues recently released the third edition of their seminal textbook\u00a0Public Health Law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We strive to reach audiences beyond academia. We appear on television and can be heard on the radio, are quoted in top newspapers, get interviewed on popular websites, and write amicus briefs. Public Health Post<\/a>, the only website in the U.S. delivering public health news daily, is based in HLPM.<\/p>\n HLPM reflects the School of Public Health and the concerns of public health. We believe knowledge shouldn\u2019t end with knowledge. Widely curious and scholarly, we are also academic activists. We want our work and students\u2019 work to change the world.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Michael D. Stein, MD<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Affiliated Degrees:<\/p>\n MS in Population Health Research: Translation and Implementation Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n PhD in Health Services Research<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n MPH<\/a><\/span> DrPH<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to HLPM. We have lived through a pandemic using laws, policies, and management, the concerns of this department. 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