Health Services Research Dissertation Program

This program provides support to individuals who are conducting research undertaken as part of an academic program to qualify for a doctorate degree relating to healthcare quality. Research applications must address one of these areas: (1) Safety/quality – Reduce the risk of harm from health care services by promoting the delivery of appropriate care that achieves the best quality outcomes; (2) Efficiency – Achieve wider access to effective health care services and reduce health care costs; (3) Effectiveness – Assure that providers and consumers/patients use beneficial and timely health care information to make informed decision choices. The program supports doctoral candidates in accredited research doctoral programs in fields such as behavioral sciences, health services research, nursing, social sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, health informatics, engineering, and mathematics. Applicants must have completed all non-dissertation requirements for their doctoral degree by the time of submission, including qualifying exams, with the only exception being required clinical internships that follow completion of the dissertation. Recipients cannot have more than part-time employment (greater than 20 hours per week) in addition to their full-time academic student appointments.