Faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management investigate the impact of financing models, organizational structures, processes, laws/regulations, and social determinants that affect quality, cost, and access to health care to improve population health in both domestic and international settings. HPM faculty have expertise in the areas of health policy, organizational theory and behavior, management, economics, medicine, sociology, political science and statistics.
Organizational Theory and the Practices
Researchers study factors that contribute to improving the population’s health and personal health of individuals.
Performance of Health Services
Research contributes to the understanding and improvement of the performance of health services in the United States and globally.
Health Systems Analytics Research Center (HSARC)
HSARC is a collaboration between the Louisiana Public Health Institute and the Tulane University Department of Health Policy and Management. This center has the capacity to design, collect, and analyze statistical data and the strategic expertise to define how those analytic outcomes can be applied given the context of our multi-level health care system.
The HSARC mission is to improve the performance and efficiency of health systems through a systematic analysis of health data related to human, technological, and social factors affecting health outcomes. By doing so, we can: