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Welcome PHA Members
As a member of the Population Health Alliance (PHA), you are already on the right path to building your leadership skills in the field. Augment and accelerate your career trajectory with a master’s degree that builds upon your prior training and experience and equips you with new market-facing knowledge and skills needed to lead healthcare transformation. Whether you’re headed to the C-suite, considering a move to another organization, or looking for ways to improve your effectiveness, our career-focused online degree programs will help you get there.
All courses are 100% online and use an accelerated 7-week “executive style” semester format. The curriculum is created and taught by industry experts and is focused on the practical application of knowledge and skills. This means you can complete a career-focused master’s degree completely online in just two years by taking only one course at a time.
Through a special relationship established with Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH), PHA members are entitled to these benefits:
- 15% discount on tuition for JCPH online graduate degree programs (does not apply for the PhD or DHSc programs)
- Registration discount for JCPH's Population Health Academy
- Special registration rate for Annual Population Health Colloquium
Featured Programs
Population Health
Employer Track
This track is designed for professionals in business and healthcare and provides a deeper focus on the application of population health principles for employee populations within organizations.
Management Track
As the shift from “volume” to “value” continues, secure your leadership role in healthcare transformation by focusing on the tools and methods needed for effective population health management. The Management Track of our signature Population Health master’s degree program uses your clinical training and experience as the foundation for developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based population health solutions that can be deployed at the practice or enterprise levels.
Science Track
This track provides critical knowledge and skills to effectively address population health issues across a spectrum of populations. It is a broad education applicable to administrative leadership positions in healthcare delivery organizations, health insurance companies, government, public health agencies, and health-related non-profit organizations. It is also ideal for general education of professionals new to or considering population health endeavors.
Doctor of Health Science in Population Health (DHSc)
Our DHSc in Population Health is designed for working professionals who are determined to transform the healthcare system. This cohort-based program is small, interactive and focused on creating a community of practice among the participants as they develop their knowledge and skills.
This 3-year cohort-based program combines the best of online content delivery, while also providing students with intensive mentoring, coaching and soft skills practice with some of the best and bightest minds from across the country.
The initial cohort will begin in 2021. We are now accepting applications.
Other Programs to Consider
Physicians are moving into leadership positions in other areas impacting healthcare. Blend your clinical expertise with additional, career-focused training to drive regulatory and policy change and conduct outcomes research and economic analysis.
Applied Health Economics & Outcomes Research
The growth of personalized medicine and new technological advancements in diagnostics and treatment are adding additional pressure to an already unsustainable growth in healthcare spending. This program builds skills in conducting outcomes research, comparative effectiveness research, and economic/financial analysis to inform clinical guidelines, best practice standards, insurance coverage levels, and value-based reimbursements.
Health Data Science
As technology continues to offer more ways to receive data from patients, caregivers, other providers, and others, healthcare leaders need new tools and skills to collect, curate, and synthesize data into actionable insights. The future of population health improvement will be fueled by vast amounts of data that are no longer limited to the physician office or hospital medical record system. Apply the latest analytics and informatics techniques to diverse data in this first-of-its-kind master’s degree program.
Healthcare Quality & Safety (Management Track)
Combine your clinical expertise and patient care experiences with the tools and methods needed to improve suboptimal care, reduce unnecessary clinical variation, prevent adverse events, and reengineer systems and processes that impact patient experiences and outcomes. The Management Track of our Healthcare Quality & Safety master’s degree program helps you build these technical skills as well as equip you with change management and leadership strategies to effectively lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in large, complex organizations.
Health Policy
Much of what impacts morbidity and mortality in the United States can be traced to various legislation, regulations, and other policies at the local, state, and national levels. Learn how to develop, evaluate, and influence healthcare policy decisions at all of these levels with this newly redesigned program.
Operational Excellence
Researchers estimate that a third or more of U.S. healthcare spending is wasteful. System factors such as cumbersome and unnecessarily complex administrative processes, low uptake of evidence-based guidelines, poor care coordination, misalignment of incentives and penalties, and other factors in healthcare are contributing to this problem. Apply Lean thinking, process improvement, and change management to increase operational efficiency in healthcare with this program.
Start Your Application
Leverage your training and experience with new applied healthcare management skills to accelerate your professional growth and career trajectory. Click on one of the programs above to start your application and select the option that identifies you as a member of PHA.