An International Program to Rethink Health Policy and Health Systems Change: The Global Health Leadership Forum is a unique certificate-based international health program focusing on key health policy and management issues. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the health policy issues and options that have been converging internationally. They learn policies and management/leadership approaches that work, find out which approaches have been tried and have not been successful, and learn about current innovations. The program also teaches strategies for effective policy implementation and management.
Berkeley Program; Barcelona Program

SAMPLE CURRICULUM ISSUES INCLUDE:

• Workshops on leadership and evidence-based management.
• Effective policy implementation and strategies for health systems change.
• How to assure quality.
• Public vs. private health insurance mix.
• Innovations in payer and health delivery connections.
• Lessons learned from managed care techniques / innovative budgeting techniques.
• The use of risk adjustments for a variety of purposes.
• Pharmaceutical innovation and regulation.
• Defining benefit packages including explicit priority setting / rationing.
• Making use of the new consumerism.
• "Information therapy" prescriptions for consumers.
• Preparation for technology changes and future health care predictions.
• Workshops on infectious disease preparedness and health care ethics.
• IT and care management systems including field trips to Kaiser Permanente and the UK's National Health Service.

Berkeley, California: Part I April 9-13, 2011
Barcelona, Spain: Part II July 17-22, 2011

$20,000 USD per cycle. There are two sessions in the cycle: Session I: California and Session II: Spain. Each session costs $10,000 which includes $6,000 for academic fees and $4,000 for hotel, group meals, field trips, and outside speakers.)

The Global Health and Environment (formerly HED) program is a unique, interdisciplinary, campuswide program based in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

The objective of the program is to help people in developing countries achieve health, reach a reasonable level of well-being, and stabilize populations, while at the same time protecting the local, community, and global environments, are among the most compelling and complicated challenges facing the world community.

Students can look forward to gaining valuable skills. Among the most critical are:
* an understanding of the sources, pathways, exposures, health impacts, and control measures for environmental pollutants and environmentally mediated infectious and parasitic diseases at the household, community, regional, and global levels;
* an appreciation of the statistical and epidemiological techniques used to establish causal links between environmental contaminants and ill-health;
* an ability to link environmental and health outcomes with population and economic development issues;
* the capability to forge concise, analytically robust, and practical policy recommendations
Curriculum

1 December 2010

Resident: $6,474.75
Non-Resident: $14,025.75

The 2-year M.P.H. program in Maternal & Child Health provides training for post-baccalaureate students with demonstrated quantitative/analytic abilities and significant work or volunteer experience in the field. The 2-year track emphasizes analytic skills and quantitative research. Students in the 2-year program are required to complete a three-month full-time field placement in the summer between the first and second years of the program. In addition, 2-year students are required to complete a thesis with substantial statistical or quantitative content during the second year of study. A comprehensive exam and secondary data analysis project are required for completion of the program. Sample Curriculum

December 1, 2010

For the 2010-2011 academic year, the cost of attendance per semester for graduate students pursuing an M.P.H. or Dr.P.H. in the School of Public Health is estimated at $10,257.25 for California residents and $16,607.75 for nonresidents. For questions regarding California residency, please visit Office of the Registrar's web site at http://registrar.berkeley.edu/or Click here

http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/

MCH Program Administrator
Tel: +1 (0)510 642 1512
Email: mchprog@berkeley.edu
Internet:http://sph.berkeley.edu/students/degrees/areas/mch2.php or
http://www.mch.berkeley.edu/prospective-students/admissions

Many issues in the health, medical and biological sciences are addressed by collecting and exploring relevant data. The development and application of techniques to better understand such data is the fundamental concern of the Group in Biostatistics. The program offers training in theory of statistics and biostatistics, computer implementation of analytic methods and opportunities to use this knowledge in areas of biological/medical research. The resources and facilities in the School of Public Health and the Department of Statistics, together with those of other university departments offer a broad set of opportunities to satisfy the needs of individual students. Involvement of faculty from the Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology at UC San Francisco enriches instructional and research activities.
Curriculum

1 December 2010

For the 2010-2011 academic year, the cost of attendance per semester for graduate students pursuing an M.P.H. or Dr.P.H. in the School of Public Health is estimated at $10,257.25 for California residents and $16,607.75 for nonresidents. For questions regarding California residency, please visit Office of the Registrar's web site at http://registrar.berkeley.edu/or Click here

http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/

Sharon Norris
Tel: +1 (0)510 642 3241
Email: biostat@berkeley.edu
Internet: http://sph.berkeley.edu/students/degrees/areas/biostat2.php or
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/biostat/