Health Policy Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：我们正在申请继续哈佛心理健康政策培训计划的支持。该项目嵌入了哈佛大学的教职员工间卫生政策博士项目。向公共政策提供有关精神卫生服务的信息利用了广泛的技能和知识。哈佛大学心理健康政策培训计划仍然有三个基本目标：1)为博士生预科学生提供强大的学科基础培训，以便应用于广泛的卫生政策领域。卫生政策博士项目集中的学科领域是：a)经济学，b)政治分析，c)决策科学，d)伦理学，e)评估科学和统计学，f)医学社会学，g)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、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(如果是社会科学家) 或者是临床培训。特别是，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，以便根据他们的学科背景完善他们的研究技能。心理健康政策培训计划的毕业生正在从事与心理健康政策相关的研究、政策分析和教学方面的各种令人兴奋的职业。在过去的15年里，该项目培养出了21名新的博士。他们正在从事与心理健康政策相关的研究工作(预计2012年还会有3人)。以前的学生受雇于主要的研究型大学、政府和私人研究公司。我们以前的博士后和博士后实习生已经成功地竞争了NIMH研究基金(5K奖和多个R01奖作为PI或共同PI)。项目学员和他们的导师进行的研究在现有的政策辩论中产生了影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are applying for support to continue the Harvard Training Program in Mental Health Policy. That program is embedded in the Harvard's Interfaculty Ph.D. program in Health Policy. Informing public policy about mental health delivery makes use of a broad array of skills and knowledge. The Harvard Training Program in Mental Health Policy continues to have three fundamental aims: 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: a) economics, b) political analysis, c) decision sciences, d) ethics, e) evaluative science and statistics, f) medical sociology, and g) management. 2) To provide trainees with formal and informal experiences that will permit them to incorporate into their research the features of mental illnesses, the institutional context within which mental health services are 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 (if a social scientist) or clinical training. In particular, 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 based on their disciplinary background. Graduates of the Training Program in Mental Health Policy are pursuing a variety of exciting careers in research, policy analysis, and teaching related to mental health policy. During the past 15 years the program has produced 21 new Ph.Ds. who are pursuing research careers related to mental health policy (with 3 more expected in 2012). Former students are employed in major research universities, government and private research companies. Our former pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees have gone on to successfully compete for NIMH research funds (5 K awards and multiple R01 awards as PI or co-PI). Research conducted by program trainees and their mentors has been influential in existing policy debates.