The Department’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of Arkansans by generating, disseminating, and applying the evidence needed for sound policy and managerial decision-making within the health system. We pursue this mission by:
- Conducting research to identify better ways of organizing, financing, and delivering health services and implementing health policies;
- Helping students acquire the knowledge and skills needed for effective policy and managerial decision-making on health issues; and
- Serving the health system in Arkansas and beyond by providing public officials and other decision-makers with objective, reliable information and assistance.
Contact the Department of Health Policy and Management at 501-526-6633
Key Areas of Expertise
The department is comprised of full-time faculty and secondary and part-time faculty who have methodological and substantive expertise in many of the areas that drive health system performance, including:
- Organization and financing of medical care and public health services
- Access to care and safety-net health care systems
- Quality measurement, quality improvement, and health outcomes assessment
- Health disparities and cultural competence in health care
- Health insurance coverage, including Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance markets
- Public health policy, regulation, and law
- Economic evaluation of medical and public health interventions
- Long-term care delivery and financing
- Rural health care delivery and financing
- Maternal, child and women’s health
- Nutrition policy and programming
- Tobacco policy and programming
- Substance abuse and mental health policy and programming
Faculty
Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management
Location: RAHN 2212
Phone: 501-526-6642
Email: tilfordmickj@uams.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Email: smbowman@uams.edu
Associate Professor
Email: currangeoffreym@uams.edu
Professor
Assistant Dean for Planning and Policy, Instructor
Location: RAHN 2264
Phone: 501-526-6050
Email: lizgates@uams.edu
Assistant Professor
Email: agoudie@uams.edu
Professor & Director of the Office of Public Health Informatics
Email: GKoru@uams.edu
Assistant Professor
Email: mknox@uams.edu
Associate Professor and Director of Office of Professional Development and Program Evaluation
Location: RAHN 2248
Phone: (501) 526-6636
Email: cllewis3@uams.edu
Instructor
Email: Sjphillips@uams.edu
Associate Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs, Associate Professor
Location: RAHN 2260
Phone: 501-526-6673
Email: ryankevinw@uams.edu
Professor, Governor Sidney S. McMath Chair in Obesity Prevention
Location: RAHN 6201B
Phone: (501) 526-6737
Email: mthomsen@uams.edu
Assistant Professor
Email: jcwilson@uams.edu
Associate Professor
Email: zohrabiana@uams.edu