Executive Program in Health and Population for Developing Countries
EPDC Mission Statement
EPDC is designed to develop policy analysis and management skills. Our goal is to improve health and population programs in developing countries through relevant, high quality training, research, international collaboration and institutional development.
Training
Upper-level health management training in the U.S. presupposes that students will encounter developed-world infrastructure, data availability, and managerial expectations; research shows that in fact much of the western-style management curriculum does not apply to the third world.
EPDC responds to the needs of developing world managers, and others studying international health, by providing a specialized course of training that simulates conditions in developing countries. The EPDC curriculum stresses developing-world health, economics, management and planning issues, and requires a major research project on a developing-world problem relevant to the individual student.
This specialized health management training is available to degree students from the U.S. and around the world; to graduate students interested in international health study abroad; to non-degree students in two-week workshops; and to visiting scholars with individualized projects.
Institutional Development
The EPDC pursues collaborative linkages with developing world institutions, helping to strengthen curriculum and faculty development and pedagogical innovation.
Research
EPDC concentrates on methodological and theoretical issues critical to policy analysis and development. Current projects are creating composite indices of health status, assessing factors affecting sustainability of NGO's, and tracing socio-economic factors on women's health. In addition, the program is compiling health datasets on India and Bangladesh for use in CASIM classroom simulations.
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