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
RAHN 2212
Professor
Assistant Dean for Planning and Policy, Instructor
RAHN 2264
Professor
Associate Professor and Director of Office of Professional Development and Program Evaluation
RAHN 2248
Associate Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs, Associate Professor
RAHN 2260
Professor, Governor Sidney S. McMath Chair in Obesity Prevention
RAHN 6201B
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor