Health Services Research - Graduate minor

The minor helps current graduate students learn to conduct and interpret reliable research that addresses costs, access to and quality of health care as well as the processes and outcomes of health services and policies.

Today’s health care systems need professionals who can examine public health issues that will help guide practices and policy decisions as well as address the growing needs of underserved populations.

Ohio State’s health services research minor provides current graduate students with the tools to conduct and interpret reliable research that addresses costs, access to and quality of health care as well as the processes and outcomes of health services and policies.

This 15-credit program combines online and in-person learning to provide students with essential skills needed to generate research questions about the structure of health care systems and the social, political and economic factors underlaying population health.

Students completing the curriculum for the graduate-level minor in Health Services Research will be prepared to:

  1. formulate and design a research study in a topic of health services research and health policy
  2. apply and interpret general health services research and statistical methods
  3. select health services research methods appropriate for a research question
  4. interpret results of health services research
  5. associate research findings to contemporary health policy issues and health professional practices

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (including foundation courses in college-level public health, public policy, psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, or the equivalent)
  • Meet all requirements established by The Ohio State University Graduate School for admission to graduate-level academic certificate programs (GRE is not required)
  • Maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher throughout curriculum
  • Students pursuing a graduate degree in the College of Public Health may overlap a maximum of six credits with their graduate degree and the certificate.

Curriculum

The health services research curriculum emphasizes the following areas:

  • organizations for the delivery of health care
  • public and private health insurance and financing
  • methods to measure individual and population health outcomes
  • methods for assessing the impact of health policy on individuals and populations
  • comparative effectiveness methods for assessing the impact of policy on health care and patient outcomes

Foundation courses

Course number Course name Credits Delivery Mode Term Offered
PUBHHMP 6610 Introduction to Health Care Organization 3 credits  Distance AU
PUBHBIO 6210 Applied Biostatistics I* 3 credits  Distance SU, AU
PUBHHMP 6625 Leveraging Healthcare Data for Practice and Policy Change 3 credits  Distance SP

 

Selective courses (pick two, total 6 credits)

Course number Course name Credits Delivery Mode Term Offered
PUBHBIO 6250 Regression Methods for the Health Sciences** 3 credits  Distance AU
PUBHHMP 7605 Introduction to Health Policy 3 credits  In-person AU
PUBHHMP 7624 Health Economics for Experienced Professionals 3 credits  Distance AU
PUBHHMP 7678 Approaches to Health Services Research 3 credits  In-person SP
PUBHHMP 7686 Qualitative Methods for Health Research 4 credits  In-person every other year

*Students who have taken PUBHLTH 6001 or PUBHBIO 6210 may choose to take PUBHBIO 6211 to fulfill this requirement. Additionally, students who have taken a statistical course equivalent to PUBHBIO 6210 may choose to take PUBHBIO 6211 to fulfill the requirement, upon approval.

**PUBHBIO 6211, or an equivalent class, is a prerequisite for PUBHBIO 6250.

Declare the minor

When you finish the required courses, complete the transcript designation form to have the graduate minor added to your student transcript.

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