Located in the heart of the nation’s capital, the Department of Health Policy and Management offers students unparalleled access to U.S. leadership and an opportunity to make lasting and impactful changes to the world we live in. Students focus on developing and advocating for better public health policies while learning how to be effective, productive and compassionate healthcare leaders.
The Department of Health Policy and Management offers a number of graduate degrees that allow students to specialize in key aspects of this broad and dynamic field.
Whether you are looking to obtain an MPH or an MHA, options are available to students both in the classroom and online. We also offer a doctorate program and joint degrees. Only a few blocks from the Capital Building, White House and Supreme Court, health policy begins and ends in our community.
The overarching theme of social justice weaves through Professor Markus's work. An expert on the financing and organization of health care and on access to care, she is particularly interested in how the health system addresses - or fails to address - the needs of women, trans and nonbinary persons, minorities and children, including those of low-income and with special needs.
Each semester, faculty, staff and students from HPM practice what they teach and learn in the classroom with the goal of better health for all.
HPM offers unique opportunities to work with federal agencies on the most pressing public health problems facing the world.
GW is home to a wide range of public health research and practice activities both within GWSPH and across the university.
Our rigorous, objective research focusing on outcomes and ways to improve health and healthcare policies and leadership practices is enhanced by our unique location.
Our extensive and ever growing partner network enables students to work with leading Washington, D.C. and regional based health organizations as practice settings.
Earning one of our many degrees can lead to a wide range of professional opportunities upon graduating. Click for a sampling of opportunities and alumni profiles.
Indira Islas, an alumnus of the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, was the lead author of a study showing that Latinos are very underrepresented in the US health professions requiring an advanced degree. Islas, who conducted the study while a graduate student at GW, talks in this video about the study and its findings. Islas, a Mexican American and member of the dreamer generation, graduated from the Milken Institute School of Public Health in May of 2022 with an MPH. Watch the video here.
Alison Barkoff Named Harold and Jane Hirsh Associate Professor of Health Law and Policy
Preeminent Health Law and Policy Expert To Join the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
The Milken Institute School of Public Health has named Alison Barkoff as its Harold and Jane Hirsh Associate Professor of Health Law and Policy.
GW Researchers Receive Grant from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to Investigate Causes of Inequitable Access to Blood Cancer Treatment and Care
Researchers Anushree Vichare, Clese Erikson and Qian “Eric” Luo from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University are among the recipients of the research funding.
SCOTUS Ruling Upholds Emergency Abortions for Now
Experts say the court’s failure to definitively act puts pregnant women, hospitals, doctors and public health nationwide at risk
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that, at least temporarily, the Emergency Medical Treatment Act’s basic guarantee of hospital emergency care will once again go back into effect for pregnant women in Idaho.
