JHUHealthPublicPolicy

For anyone else accepted to Hopkins HPM, have you heard anything about funding? I haven't heard, and I'm wondering whether some people were offered funding, whether some tracks already released and others haven't or if everyone is waiting. It's make me sweat that I only have a month to decide without funding information!

May I ask which concentration you applied to? I don't know whether the decisions are different by track, but I emailed the head of the Health and Public Policy track and she said that she wouldn't be able to tell me anything about funding "until March" which I know is vague, but I think at least that concentration hasn't sent out all their acceptances. I think I did see some for Health Services Research and Policy, and maybe one of the other two. Sorry if this isn't all that helpful! Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Before I applied to programs last year one of my recommendation writers suggested that I look for assistant/tenure track faculty that I had interests with and list at least one. The big name professors often have tons of students who want to work with them, whereas the junior faculty have fewer, tend to be more eager to be active mentors and they often need to advise a certain number of doctoral students through graduation before they can be tenured. The person who will be my mentor is the more junior faculty member I listed. Hope that helps! Good luck to everyone still waiting, and for those who have decisions to make!

There are 4 concentrations in the department. I saw some from health services and maybe bioethics? but not from health and public policy. As far as I know those haven't gone out yet, because they haven't decided the funding offers. I had to ask the office how it works since I won't be getting a normal admission letter since I deferred, and they said it would be similar but it wouldn't be until closer to the end of the month. Last year there were 12 people admitted across the department: 2 in bioethics, 2 in economics, 4 in health services, and 4 in health and public policy + 1 who deferred from the previous year, so 13 total. I don't know how many it will be total if they are admitting fewer and which concentrations will have fewer students or if it will be all.

I'm new to posting here, but I've been lurking. I was admitted last year to Johns Hopkins Health Policy and Management department in the health and public policy concentration and deferred my admission until this fall. I'm not sure if anyone else here applied specifically to that department, but I can tell you that this year you are being notified a lot later than last year. Last year, I got an email from the concentration director on Feb 1st and got my formal letter about 2 days later. This year, I'm still waiting to hear about funding for this fall, so I can tell you that the official letters haven't gone out yet as far as I know. But I'm not sure about the other concentrations.