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Healthcare leadership.

Northeastern University's Doctor of Medical Science in Healthcare Leadership (DMSc) is an innovative, 100% online doctoral degree that is open to all medical professionals seeking to expand their career potential in healthcare leadership, administration, education, and advocacy.

Healthcare leadership careers are rising, with jobs for medical and health services managers estimated to grow 32% by 2030.

Northeastern's Doctor of Medical Science in Healthcare Leadership (DMSc) fills the need for medical professionals of all kinds to advance their education. The program is delivered 100% online and is the first degree of its type to be offered by an R1 research institution. You'll graduate ready for new career opportunities in healthcare leadership, administration, education, and advocacy.

The degree creates a path to leadership for individuals with varied healthcare backgrounds and career goals. Here's what you can expect:

• Gain perspectives and visibility into challenges and opportunities across the medical sciences.
• Engage in a curriculum comprising core courses centered on healthcare systems and leadership skills, a specialized concentration, and a problem-based thesis project related to your concentration.
• Advance your career with a degree developed in cooperation with healthcare leaders and designed to create leaders with both technical proficiency and in-demand management skills.
• Customize your degree with a choice of nine available concentrations.

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Unique features.

Northeastern’s DMSc degree is an innovative pathway for all healthcare degree holders to advance their education toward leadership—other universities limit admissions to physician assistant graduates.

Earn your degree part-time with maximum flexibility and a 100% online curriculum open to a broad range of medical professionals working in a clinical healthcare setting. 

Gain the career advantage of a degree developed in cooperation with healthcare leaders and employers and designed to create leaders with both technical proficiency and in-demand management skills.

Specialized concentrations add career flexibility to a rigorous core curriculum. Concentrations include Health Informatics (Practice); Health Informatics (Research); Health Law; Business Management for Healthcare; Public Health; Patient Safety; Extreme Medicine; Exercise Science; and Interdisciplinary Healthcare Leadership.

Northeastern's Doctor of Medical Science in Healthcare Leadership is the first DMSc program of its kind offered by a leading R1-rated research university. 

Career Outlook

Healthcare leadership careers are rising, with jobs for medical and health services managers estimated to grow 32% by 2030. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022)

Median annual wage for medical and health services managers is $101K. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022)

Median annual wage for medical scientists in research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences is $102,210. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022)

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A graduate degree or certificate from Northeastern—a top-ranked university—can accelerate your career through rigorous academic coursework and hands-on professional experience in the area of your interest. Apply now—and take your career to the next level.

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Finance Your Education We offer a variety of resources, including scholarships and assistantships.

How to Apply Learn more about the application process and requirements.

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• Two letters of recommendation
• The Foreign Credential Evaluation (FCE) is a required assessment of all transcripts and documents from non-U.S. accredited post-secondary education institutions. (Review the FCE requirements by country.)
• Personal statement
• TOEFL or IELTS for applicants who do not hold a degree from a U.S. institution and whose native language is not English
• Applicants with a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in a healthcare-related field plus at least 3 years of experience in a healthcare-related field and is in a leadership/management role with evidence (a supervisor letter) of duties that supports significant/progressive leadership and responsibilities will be considered.
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 in the accredited program

Learn More Access the program page on the Bouvé College of Health Sciences website.

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Admissions Dates

Fall term deadline: August 1

Spring term deadline: December 1

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Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership (DrPH)

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The Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership (DrPH) Program is designed for mid- to senior-level professionals who seek the skills to assume greater leadership roles in either public or private sector settings at the local, national and international levels. Our program enables students to learn – from anywhere in the world — how to shape public health policy, lead and effect change in a wide range of organizations and institutions, and conduct and capitalize on practice-based research. Our small, diverse cohorts, renowned faculty and innovative teaching and learning environments create a rewarding and stimulating student experience. This three-year distance program, with six five-day on campus sessions over two years, confers a DrPH in Health Executive Leadership.

Program Format

With the exception of three on-site visits/year, students work from home and offices as they complete their degrees. Students are expected to come to campus three times/year during the first two years. One of the six on-site visits over the first two years may be to an international site or to another location in the United States. Students complete their coursework in the first two years, followed by one-to-three years to complete their dissertation.

Students connect to faculty and peers mainly via computer, making substantial use of technology that allows students and faculty to interact productively and which supports live video, audio, and data sharing.  Additional details about the curriculum, dissertation, admissions criteria and instructional delivery are available at the links at the top of the page.

Who are we looking for?

We encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds as defined by the NIH .

Mid-to-senior career level professionals interested in public health executive leadership

To benefit most from the program and to help establish a robust cohort learning environment, candidates’ work experience should demonstrate a progression of increased job responsibilities and leadership roles over time.  This should include at least five years’ relevant experience since first graduate degree, as well as experience supervising others or teams for at least five years (additional consideration will be given for supervising/managing people who supervise others and/or teams).  In addition, candidates should be able to demonstrate many of the following attributes and experience:

• Significant decision-making authority and leadership responsibility for at least one of the following: policy making, strategic planning, operations management, research/grants management, budgeting, marketing, communications, product development (or directly leading up to/significantly supporting senior leaders in these areas).
• Leading or managing innovative projects or complex, “sticky wicket” problems.
• Significant cross-systems thinking, planning, engagement, and/or re-engineering.
• Generating positive, proven results.
• Acknowledgement of “growth experiences,” or situations with unintended outcomes from which the candidate has learned and applied valuable lessons.
• Reporting to boards of directors, directly to elected officials, and/or senior/executive leadership.
• Success in leading through influence, both inside their organization and across systems.

People in a position, with passion and experience, to drive changes that improve the health of the population

The following are examples of this criteria:

• People who have demonstrated experience working beyond their discipline and their teams/organization to affect systems and policy change to improve health access/uptake or address health inequities in their communities.
• People who can clearly articulate their career interests in leading teams and organizations or working across systems to tackle practice-based problems and policy that improve the population’s health.
• Healthcare leaders who can connect their work to public health and want to have a larger impact on the health of the population.
• People in industry/private sector who see the need to partner with government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs)/civil society organizations (CSOs), and/or philanthropies to solve complex, system problems and make sustainable change.
• People in government who see the need to work with other sectors to improve population health.

People interested in helping to expand access to public health and health care services and to improving population-based health outcomes

• People who can articulate their experience and interest in advancing the field of public health by addressing health equity, vital conditions for health and well-being, and challenges to accessing public health services.
• People across the political and geographic spectrum who can bring alternative policy and system solutions forward for debate.

People with the following personal attributes

• People who are self-motivated and driven, and who can articulate a plan for success of incorporating at least 16 hours a week to their academic studies and can envision how they will successfully complete a doctoral level culminating experience.
• People looking for academic rigor in practice.
• Think critically and articulate their thoughts, both verbally and in writing, in a clear and compelling manner
• Engage in the collegial debate of ideas and solutions, and
• Maintain collaborative learning and working relationships.

A cohort when taken together represents the following:

• People who collectively represent the systems that must work together to improve the population’s health. This means people who currently work in government (from global to local), non-governmental organizations/civil service organizations, philanthropy, health care, business/industry, technology, innovation, etc. We want a cohort that can learn from each other across systems and solution types and that can rely on each other as professional “consultants.”
• Both domestic and global health equity perspectives.

For Whom is this Program Not the Right Fit?

The following people are better served by other programs:

• Early career professionals and those with less than five years of leadership experience since completing their first graduate degree.
• People whose interests and future career ambitions are not clearly connected to public health improvement.
• Those who want to conduct basic/pure/fundamental research. People who want to conduct applied research as part of practice will be given consideration. If that research requires strong quantitative research skills, the candidate should already possess those skills, as they are not a focus of this program.
• Those interested solely in academic teaching jobs. An interest in teaching as part of a practice-based position will be given consideration.

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The Online Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership

From the gillings school of global public health at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, effect positive change in local and global health care.

If you’re ready to step into higher leadership roles in health care, consider the online Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership (DrPH) Program.  

The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health — ranked the No. 2 public school of public health in the United States 1 — designed this online program to teach mid- to senior-level public health professionals how to develop their own leadership philosophy and use it to shape public health policy in a wide range of organizations around the world. 

The Gillings School is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health and the University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

The Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership at a Glance

49 credits (9 courses)

3 years to complete (part time)

1 practicum project in a relevant organization

1 dissertation (on a current or past public health issue)

Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership Curriculum

The online Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership curriculum teaches students how to conduct and capitalize on practice-based research. During the first two years, you will complete online coursework that focuses on three content areas: leadership, public health and research. 

In the spring or summer of your second year, you will be asked to present and defend your dissertation proposal. At the end of the second year summer, you will take your written comprehensive exams. You will concentrate on your dissertation research in the third year.

Course Highlights

Core research and skills courses include:

• Population Perspectives for Health — Identify important population health problems, some of which may be appropriate as dissertation topics.
• Essentials of Practice-Based Research — Master fundamental quantitative and qualitative research skills, including formulating research questions, the pros and cons of different study designs, basic statistical techniques and sources of secondary data.
• Fundamentals of Research Analysis — Consider alternative research methodologies and analytical techniques for different research questions. Focus more heavily on qualitative research, and prepare your formal dissertation proposal.
• Health Policy Analysis and Advocacy for Leaders — Learn the policy analysis and policy making process. Identify strategies you may consider in your dissertation.

Admissions: Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership

The Gillings School of Global Public Health values a diversified cohort that represents a variety of perspectives and experience. The admissions committee evaluates each applicant holistically. GRE scores are not required. Note that meeting the minimum requirements does not ensure admission. 

Admissions Requirements: 

• A prior master’s or doctoral degree (not necessarily in public health)
• GPA of at least 3.0 in prior graduate study
• Full-time employment in the field
• At least five years of post-graduate experience in the health field, with significant management or leadership responsibilities at the mid- to senior-level

Review a complete list of application requirements and deadlines for the Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership.

Deepen Your Knowledge With Key Leadership Skills

The online Executive Doctoral Program in Health leadership will prepare you for high-level leadership roles in health care, with 28 competencies related to management and government; data and analysis; policy and programs; and education and workplace development.

The Online Learning Experience

Students in this program study completely online. You will receive material (recorded videos, narrative case studies, datasets, readings, etc.) online each week, study these materials on your own time and complete tasks before the weekly, live sessions.  

You will, however, be expected to come to campus three times a year during the first two years, for a total of six on-campus visits during the program. One of the six on-site visits may be to an international site or to another location in the U.S. 

First-year students will attend classes on Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time. Second-year students attend classes on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time. 

Additional Online Offerings From UNC-Chapel Hill

In addition to the Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership, UNC-Chapel Hill offers other online education options in health care.

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If you’re ready to invest in yourself and in the future of public health as an influential leader, apply to our online Executive Doctoral Program in Health Leadership (DrPH) today.  

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About the PhD in Health Policy and Management Program

The PhD in Health Policy and Management is a full-time doctoral program that trains its students to conduct original investigator-initiated research through a combination of coursework and research mentoring. The curriculum includes core coursework that is common across the four concentrations and courses specific to each individual concentration. Applicants to the PhD in Health Policy and Management apply directly to one of four concentrations. All four options have the same deadline, structure, and funding.

Concentration Areas

This concentration is designed for students interested in conducting independent research on ethical issues in public health policy, research and practice such as domestic and international research ethics, learning health systems, emerging biomedical technologies, ethics and public health genetics, national and global food policy, access to care and health care priority setting. By the end of their training, students are equipped to function as independent researchers, conducting empirical research related to bioethics, public health and health policy, as well as prepared to provide practical and normative recommendations regarding ethics and public health policy.

View more program information about the Concentration in Bioethics and Health Policy.

This concentration is designed for students interested in preventing leading public health problems through the development, analysis, implementation and evaluation of public health policies. Students affiliated with this concentration employ an interdisciplinary approach to their research in areas such as environmental and occupational health policy, injury prevention and control, social policy, and health and the practice of prevention.

View more program information about the Concentration in Health and Public Policy .

This concentration prepares doctoral students for conducting innovative and rigorous research on the economics of health and healthcare. The curriculum stresses a solid grounding in applied modern microeconomic theory, quantitative methods, and econometrics applications. Students take courses through the Department of Economics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

View more program information about the Concentration in Health Economics and Policy.

This concentration prepares doctoral students for conducting innovative and rigorous quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation in health services delivery. The curriculum includes exposure to a wide variety of research methods, content areas, and datasets. It also offers the opportunity for in-depth study in areas such as public health informatics, quality of care and patient-centered outcomes research, including a focus on older adults, and health care disparities.

View more program information about the Concentration in Health Services Research and Policy.

Curriculum for the PhD in Health Policy and Management

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Our graduates graduates pursue research careers in top-tier universities, research and policy-making organizations, the health care industry and government agencies. Visit the  Graduate Employment Outcomes Dashboard to learn about Bloomberg School graduates' employment status, sector, and salaries.

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For general admissions requirements, please visit the How to Apply page. All concentrations follow the same admission process. Please see below for full details on the scope of each concentration.

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PhD in Health Policy and Management – Health Services Research and Policy

For general information regarding tuition and fees, visit the Bloomberg School’s  Tuition and Fees  page.

Per the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the JHU PhD Union, the minimum guaranteed 2025-2026 academic year stipend is $50,000 for all PhD students with a 4% increase the following year. Tuition, fees, and medical benefits are provided, including health insurance premiums for PhD student’s children and spouses of international students, depending on visa type. The minimum stipend and tuition coverage is guaranteed for at least the first four years of a BSPH PhD program; specific amounts and the number of years supported, as well as work expectations related to that stipend will vary across departments and funding source. Please refer to the CBA to review specific benefits, compensation, and other terms.

Need-Based Relocation Grants Students who  are admitted to PhD programs at JHU starting in Fall 2023 or beyond can apply to receive a need-based grant to offset the costs of relocating to be able to attend JHU.   These grants provide funding to a portion of incoming students who, without this money, may otherwise not be able to afford to relocate to JHU for their PhD program. This is not a merit-based grant. Applications will be evaluated solely based on financial need.  View more information about the need-based relocation grants for PhD students .

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