Overview

About the program

Stanford University offers a Health Policy PhD program which promises to educate students who will be scholarly leaders in the field of health policy, and will be highly knowledgeable about the theoretical and empirical approaches that can be applied in the development of improvements in health policy and the health care system.

The curriculum offers courses across a wide range of health policy areas including health economics, health insurance and government program operation, health financing, international health policy and economic development, cost-effectiveness analysis and the evaluation of new technologies, health law and ethics, health systems operations, relevant statistical and methodological approaches, and health policy issues related to public health concerns like obesity and chronic disease.

Programme Structure

Students are expected to complete coursework in one of three tracks:

Health Economics - including the economic behavior of individuals, providers, insurers, and governments and the methodologic training to measure how their actions affect health and medical care,
Decision Sciences - with quantitative techniques to assess the effectiveness and value of medical treatments and for decision making about medical care and health policies at the individual and/or collective level,
Evaluative Methods – encompassing advanced statistical, computational, and other quantitative methodologies appropriate for application in areas of interest to students such as organizational behavior, law, ethics, and data science.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-22 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-11-30 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

135 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Public Health Social Policy View 45 other PhDs in Social Policy in United States

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Academic requirements

GRE^®

Required

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants must hold, or expect to hold before enrollment at Stanford, a bachelor’s degree from a U.S. college or university accredited by a regional accrediting association, or an international equivalent.
Statement of Purpose
Letters of Recommendation
Transcripts (Academic Records)
Resume/CV
TOEFL score (if applicable)

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Tuition Fee

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International

25440 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 12720 USD per semester during 48 months.
National

25440 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 12720 USD per semester during 48 months.
In-State

25440 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 12720 USD per semester during 48 months.

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Living costs for Stanford

1100 - 1600 USD /month

Living costs

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Scholarships Information

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