PhD Training in Population Health & Quality Improvement

该计划旨在培养高技能的卫生服务研究人员，他们在人口健康科学，系统和质量工程以及定量方法方面具有强大的跨学科基础。 个人和人口的健康是许多决定因素的产物，从个人行为和遗传禀赋，到环境暴露，到卫生系统特征，以及社会经济和种族-民族/文化因素。 该计划的学生将接受培训，使他们能够将研究放在更大的人口焦点中，并从系统的角度熟练掌握卫生服务研究和质量改进的一般分析方法。 该计划将利用三个跨学科培训机会的融合：该大学快速发展的人口健康博士课程;工业工程（IE）长期博士课程强调卫生系统，人为因素和质量工程;以及新资助的罗伯特·伍德约翰逊健康与社会学者计划人口健康。 申请人提出了一个博士前的培训计划相结合的人口为基础的卫生服务研究和医疗质量的改善/患者安全的重点与九个培训职位分布约三分之二的位置追求博士学位的学生在人口健康科学，和三分之一在IE附属于系统工程倡议在患者安全中心的质量和生产力的提高。 学生分享核心人口健康课程（健康，流行病学，卫生服务研究，医疗保健质量和统计方法的决定因素）和涵盖社会技术系统原则的工程课程，以及科学道德行为的培训，并支持前往国家科学会议。 20个高度跨学科的教师提供研究机会，了解和评估健康和人口（特别是弱势群体）健康差异的来源，医疗系统中的患者安全和质量改善，开发新的测量和统计方法来衡量健康结果并进行医疗技术评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program seeks to produce highly skilled, health services researchers who have a strong interdisciplinary foundation in population health sciences, systems and quality engineering, and quantitative methods. Health of individuals and populations is the product of many determinants ranging from personal behaviors and genetic endowment, to environmental exposures, to health system characteristics, and socioeconomic and racial-ethnic/cultural factors. Students in this program will have training allowing them to place their research in a larger population focus as well as to be skilled in general analytic methods for health services research and quality improvement from a systems perspective. The proposed program will take advantage of the confluence of three interdisciplinary training opportunities: the University's rapidly growing PhD program in Population Health; a longstanding doctoral program in Industrial Engineering (IE) emphasizing Health Systems, Human Factors, and Quality Engineering; and a newly-funded Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program within Population Health. The applicant proposes a pre-doctoral training program combining population-based health services research and healthcare quality improvement/patient safety emphases with nine training positions distributed roughly two-third of the positions to students pursuing the PhD degree in Population Health Sciences, and one-third in IE affiliated with the Systems Engineering Initiative in Patient Safety within the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. Students share core population health courses (determinants of health, epidemiology, health services research, quality in healthcare, and statistical methods) and an engineering course covering principles of sociotechnical systems, as well as training in ethical conduct of science, and are supported for travel to national scientific meetings. Twenty highly interdisciplinary faculty offer research opportunities understanding and assessing health and sources of health disparities in populations (especially vulnerable populations), to patient safety and quality improvement in the healthcare system, to development of new measurement and statistical methods to measure health outcomes and conducting healthcare technology assessment.