Health Policy Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请请求继续支持心理健康政策研究的博士后和博士后培训计划。该培训计划是哈佛大学卫生政策教职员工间倡议的一部分，设在哈佛医学院卫生保健政策系。申请继续支持的依据是在以下方面取得的巨大成就：a)教育新一代心理健康政策学者；b)学员进行重要研究；c)将学员安排在重要的研究和政策职位；d)吸引和培训心理健康政策研究中代表性不足的少数群体成员；e)培养在心理健康政策研究方面开展成功研究方案的学者。该计划的三个核心目标是：1)为博士生提供强大的学科基础培训，以便在广泛的卫生政策领域应用。卫生政策博士项目的重点学科领域是“卫生经济学、政治分析、决策科学、伦理学、统计学和评估学、医学社会学和管理学”。2)向受训者提供正式和非正式的经验，使他们能够将精神疾病的特点、支付和提供精神卫生服务的机构背景以及精神卫生领域公共政策决策的性质纳入他们的研究。3)为博士后研究员提供研究经验，以加强他们的学科培训或临床培训。具体地说，我们的目标是将每位博士后研究员与深入接触精神卫生保健机构、临床情况、公共政策结构和社会科学研究方法的研究经验相匹配，以完善他们的研究技能，使他们成为有效的精神卫生政策研究人员。该项目位于越来越多的心理健康政策研究人员的研究社区中，他们精力充沛、富有成效、合作精神强，并为处于职业生涯早期的学者提供支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continuing support for a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training program in mental health policy research. The training program is a component of the Harvard University Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy and is housed in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. The application for continued support is based on a strong record of accomplishment in: a) educating a new generation of scholars in mental health policy; b) production of important research by trainees; c) placing trainees in significant research and policy positions; d) attracting and training members of underrepresented minorities in mental health policy research; and e) producing scholars that are launching successful research programs in mental health policy research. The three central aims of the program are: 1) To offer pre-doctoral students strong disciplinary based training for application to the broad area of health policy. The disciplinary areas of concentration within the Ph.D. program in health policy are" health economics, political analysis, decision sciences, ethics, statistics and evaluative science, medical sociology, and management. 2) To provide trainees with formal and informal experiences that will permit them to incorporate into their research features of mental illnesses, the institutional context within which mental health services are paid for and delivered and the nature of public policy decision making in the mental health arena. 3) To provide post-doctoral fellows with research experiences that augments their disciplinary training or clinical training. Specifically, we aim to match each post-doctoral fellow with research experiences that offer an in depth exposure to mental health care institutions, clinical circumstances, public policy structures and social science research methods so as to round out their research skills and make them effective mental health policy researchers. The program is located in a growing research community of mental health policy researchers that is highly energetic, productive, collaborative and supportive of scholars that are early in their careers.