Dissertation Proposal in Health Systems Analysis and Management

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Pre-requisites: Graduate student must approved comprehensive exams. The course is an Integrative Learning Experience for doctoral students of Health Systems Analysis and Management specialty. In this course, the student will demonstrate mastery in the acquired competencies by designing a research proposal that represents a theoretical and methodological contribution to influence public health practice, programs, policies or systems. The student presents the problem, research questions, and study methods as a proposal for approval of the Dissertation Committee. The dissertation can be based on program evaluation, policy analysis, development of an intervention, design, and implementation of a public health program, development of a legislative proposal, or a traditional research dissertation from a public health perspective . The student will present in writing and orally a research proposal applying theoretical and methodological principles of public health.