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    Health Policy/HSR

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  1. Basically, your decision is going to boil down to want you want to get out of the master's program. GU's MPP is a quantitative analysis driven approach to policy that addresses aspects of international development in a similar fashion to how local policies would be formed and implemented. It is not an international relations program and does really focus on diplomacy or state-based foreign relations organizations. In both you'll get some economics, although SAIS has more in international trade and macroeconomics. GU offers courses in macro, but it is not part of the core curriculum. Georgetown does have the School of Foreign Service with which MPP students can take courses, although it is sometimes difficult to get into the better ones (they have their Madeline Albright, we have our EJ Dionne/Paul Begala). As far as post-graduation situation, I have friends from GU that now work for the World Bank, USAID, and several private not-for-profit groups. You'll be well positioned to work for NGOs at either school. If you are more interested in finance development vis-a-vis IMF work, probably SAIS would be better, likewise if you wanted to do development work through the State Department/Foreign Service, SAIS may be the better option.
  2. Hi nandanroom. I'm a graduate of the MPP program at GU. Did a bit of TA'ing while I was there. There are TA opportunities for students, but they are not available for first year students. This is because you would TA for classes within the public policy program. There are a few RA opportunities as well, but I don't know as much about them. Most students find paid internships in the many government or non-profit organizations in DC. I'd be happy to talk more about the program if you'd like.
  3. I'll be attending Harvard's PhD in Health Policy (ESS Track). It was a hard decision between them and the Johns Hopkins PhD program in Health Services Research and Policy. Slightly better financial offer + great interdisciplinary program + fantastic location for health policy
  4. Rejection from Yale (PhD in Health Policy & Management)
  5. I'm think about declining the offer to Brown (PhD in HSR)... good news for anyone hoping to get off their wait-list.
  6. Harvard has started sending acceptances -- I'm in!
  7. @unc-far I submitted my app in late december and will be interviewing on Feb. 10th.
  8. Harvard PhD in Health Policy (Evaluative Science and Statistics)
  9. I applied to the Health Services Research & Policy program at Hopkins.
  10. I've heard from Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Harvard about interviews. Still waiting on a few others
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