HPM Academic Institutes
Academic Institutes provide opportunities for students to take courses in compressed formats, from 1 to 4 days over 1 to 4-week periods. Courses taken for academic credit may be applied to degree programs and certificates at the School. Other Departments, Programs, and Centers within the Bloomberg School offer additional Institutes. For the most up-to-date information, consult the BSPH Institute web page.
HPM offers three Institutes during each academic year, the Winter Institute, during January intersession, the Summer Institute, during June, and the Fall Institute in Barcelona Spain, during 2nd term.
HPM Certificates
The Department of Health Policy and Management offers 10 graduate certificate programs; certificates noted with an * are available completely online. For detailed information on each program, please visit our certificate page.
Certificate Programs for Hopkins Students Only
- Gerontology
- Health Disparities and Health Inequality
- Injury and Violence Prevention
- Public Health Advocacy
- Public Health Economics
- Risk Sciences and Public Policy*
Certificate Programs for Hopkins and Non-Degree Students
- Health Finance and Management*
- Leadership for Public Health and Healthcare*
- Public Health Informatics*
- Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research*
Note, The Certificate in Public Health Preparedness has moved to the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. The Certificate in International Healthcare Management and Leadership is no longer accepting students.
Executive Education
The Department of Health Policy and Management sponsors an inter-professional continuing education program for healthcare executives: Leading Transformation for Value-Based Health Care (LTVH).
LTVH is a fully online, multidisciplinary, inter-professional program offered from January to June each year. The interactive curriculum provides healthcare leaders with the requisite knowledge and skills to transform their organizations for success under value-based healthcare. The program starts with an intense 3 days of online learning in January, followed by weekly evening seminars through early June, spanning finance, leadership, negotiation, quality, population health, ethics, and IT.
Postdoctoral Opportunities
The Department of Health Policy and Management offers new doctoral graduates the opportunity to earn valuable research experience working with Department faculty through postdoctoral fellowships. Postdoctoral opportunities are, on average, 1-2 years in length.
Postdoctoral fellows are considered non-degree-seeking students but must complete a postdoc application. All positions are full-time and funded through federal training grants, institutional grants, or private contracts. All postdoctoral positions must provide proof of a doctoral-level degree (PhD, DrPH, MD, etc.) and be approved by the Department's Faculty Development Committee.