Health Policy Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求继续支持心理健康政策研究的博士前和博士后培训计划。该培训项目是哈佛大学卫生政策跨学院倡议的一个组成部分，设在哈佛医学院卫生保健政策系。继续支持的申请基于以下方面的良好成就：a)在心理健康政策方面教育新一代学者；B)学员的重要研究成果；C)安排受训者担任重要的研究和政策职位；D)在精神卫生政策研究中吸引和培训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成功开展研究项目的学者。该计划的三个中心目标是：1)为博士生提供强有力的学科基础培训，以应用于广泛的卫生政策领域。卫生政策博士课程集中的学科领域是“卫生经济学、政治分析、决策科学、伦理学、统计和评估科学、医学社会学和管理学”。2)向学员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体制背景以及精神卫生领域公共政策决策的性质纳入自己的研究。3)为博士后提供科研经验，以增强其学科训练或临床训练。具体而言，我们的目标是为每位博士后提供深入接触精神卫生保健机构、临床环境、公共政策结构和社会科学研究方法的研究经验，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。该计划位于一个不断发展的心理健康政策研究人员研究社区，该社区充满活力，富有成效，协作性强，并支持处于职业生涯早期的学者。

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.