Core Competencies

The major components of the master's in Global Health Economics include:

• Nine months of academic coursework building strengths in economics, econometrics, biostatistics, and epidemiology
• Written comprehensive exam
• Specialty elective courses in international health
• Completion of a scholarly paper that integrates material from multiple courses applying health economics, globalization and health, econometrics, economic evaluation or other research techniques to a topic of interest

Students who complete the MHS in Global Health Economics will be able to

• Use economic theory to predict responses to changes in policies and incentives provided by changes in government policy, the health system, in health services provision, or in public health
• Use economic theory to balance the tradeoff between equity and efficiency for health policy recommendations
• Understand the appropriate role of cost-effectiveness analysis and economic reasoning in the policy making process for health care in the United States and around the world
• Understand how economics is combined effectively with other public health sciences including biostatistics, epidemiology, and disease modeling in the conduct of cost-effectiveness studies and other types of economic studies
• Provide input into the conduct of economic evaluations related to new health interventions, health systems, health services, or public health interventions
• Provide content input into the conduct of econometric analyses of changes related to policy and to perform data management and statistical tasks related to econometric analyses
• Provide input into the interpretation of results of all types of economic evaluations and analyses for policy purposes
• Analyze how globalization trends in trade, immigration and labor markets may affect global burdens of disease and health behavior