PhD in Health Policy vs. MS/MPH

[salome]

I'm curious what people think about the marketability of a PhD in health policy as opposed to an MS or MPH. There has been a lot in the news lately about humanities PhD graduates having a hard time post-doc with few academic positions available. I'm not interested in academia...more interested in working for the fed gov't but a search of USAjobs seems to indicate there's not much out there. Is this because most of these health policy research/analyst positions are in the private sector as this work is contracted out more and more often? If that's the case, do you think this trend will continue?

I applied to all Master's degree programs and one PhD program (sort of a whim) and surprised myself by getting into the PhD program. I love the program and would like to attend but I want to make sure I'm not putting myself in a bad position post-graduation for jobs. Thoughts? Thanks for any advice!

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I'm curious what people think about the marketability of a PhD in health policy as opposed to an MS or MPH. There has been a lot in the news lately about humanities PhD graduates having a hard time post-doc with few academic positions available. I'm not interested in academia...more interested in working for the fed gov't but a search of USAjobs seems to indicate there's not much out there. Is this because most of these health policy research/analyst positions are in the private sector as this work is contracted out more and more often? If that's the case, do you think this trend will continue?

I applied to all Master's degree programs and one PhD program (sort of a whim) and surprised myself by getting into the PhD program. I love the program and would like to attend but I want to make sure I'm not putting myself in a bad position post-graduation for jobs. Thoughts? Thanks for any advice!

When I was interviewing for jobs (some in health policy), all of the people had PhDs in Health Policy. The people who had the MPHs were mostly MDs or people with PhDs in something else. Maybe it was just the institutions where I was interviewing, but that seemed to be the trend.

I am not in the health policy field but that was just a little observation that I had.

Congrats on the PhD acceptance!

[salome]

Thanks for the input!