This course of study is designed to provide students with the ability to critique, apply, and conduct applied pharmacoeconomics research to improve clinical decision making. Students learn how to apply economic principles to describe and understand the use medications and pharmaceutical services. Using these principles, students will be able to participate in a team effort to design and evaluate interventions to improve clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes within a health system. Since Applied PE deals with healthcare at the population level rather than the individual patient level, students will also gain a working understanding of health care systems and the epidemiological techniques used to describe and analyze medication induced diseases at a population level. In addition students learn how the incentives within the system drive provider and patient behavior, and the ethical implications of the use of pharmacoeconomic data in the decision making process.

Starting dates in January and August.  Admissions Information