Public health policy (PPS) course
The PPS pathway is designed to train decision-makers and managers in organizations involved in healthcare policy.
At a glance
Admission
Competition
Language
French
Terms and conditions
In-class and sandwich courses in 5th year
Course objective and pedagogical project
The Public Health Policy (PPS) course is designed to train decision-makers and managers in organizations involved in health policy (hospitals, medical-social establishments, local authorities, national administrations, etc.).
The program is aimed at healthcare professionals in continuing education and students in initial training. PPS aims to equip them with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, define, implement and evaluate healthcare policies.
The course is multi-disciplinary, combining political science, management, law, public health and sociology. It is taught by a mixed team of teacher-researchers and healthcare professionals.
Course highlights
The 5 th year of the PPS program follows a sandwich system. From September to June, students come to Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA for one week a month to follow the course. Between teaching weeks, students pursue their professional activity or complete an internship or professionalization contract.
Backed by 15 years of experience, the PPS program and its students benefit from an active network of graduates working as decision-makers and managers in healthcare organizations.
The course's teaching team has close links with local players. Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA has a partnership with Grenoble Alpes University Hospital and its Institut de Formation des Cadres de Santé.
To adapt to the new needs of the sector, the PPS pathway's pedagogical project has been completely reformed for 2022-2023, in consultation with local players.
Examples of teaching modules
The course comprises 18 modules, including :
- Public health and social inequalities in health
- Sociology of healthcare organizations
- Risk management, quality and certification
- Tutored workshop: Evaluating a healthcare policy
- Optional complementary module in preparation for competitive examinations in the healthcare sector
Skills
The aim of the Public Health Policy program is to enable students to develop key professional activities over the course of their training. A competency framework is associated with each activity. The skills repository specifies in an orderly fashion the steps required to successfully carry out the activity. Activities and skills referenced in the training program.
● Mobilize your knowledge of health conditions and health policies;
● Define the case study and its scope, and identify the players in the policy under study and their interactions;
● Contextualize the health policy under study: historical, legal and regulatory, economic and social, territorial field;
● Carry out bibliographical research and prioritize relevant academic sources and reliable institutional documentary sources;
● Relate information in a critical and problematized perspective;
● Take into account the specificities of the players in order to adopt an adapted posture;
● Develop, structure and implement an empirical survey protocol;
● Collect qualitative and quantitative data;
● Analyze qualitative and quantitative data;
● Produce and disseminate a structured analysis and synthesis of the analysis, monitoring or evaluation with findings and recommendations for action.
● Mobilize your knowledge of health conditions and health policies;
● Take on board the elements of the diagnosis and/or the order;
● Contextualize the project environment;
● Define the operational scope of the project;
● Identify and mobilize the relevant players around the project;
● Anticipate and provide for organizational, human, financial and logistical resources;
● Plan the project's implementation, intermediate milestones and their sequencing, and adopt an iterative approach to adjustments during implementation, if necessary;
● Manage funding flows;
● Manage the division of labor in small or extended teams; manage any interpersonal conflicts;
● Manage the project's partnership relations.
● Mobilize your knowledge of health conditions and health policies;
● Define the case study and its scope;
● Contextualize the health policy under study: historical, legal and regulatory, economic and social, territorial field;
● Carry out bibliographical research and rank relevant academic sources and reliable institutional documentary sources;
● Adopt a reflective and critical approach;
● Assess the internal and external validity of a survey or protocol;
● Problematize a social phenomenon based on a review of the scientific literature on the object of study
● Relate information in a critical and problematized perspective;
● Develop, structure and implement an empirical survey protocol;
● Collect qualitative and quantitative data;
● Analyze qualitative and quantitative data;
● Adapt communication to the target audience, both written and oral;
● Produce and disseminate a structured analysis and synthesis of specialized knowledge in the social sciences and public policy analysis.
Target audience and access
The 5th year of the course is aimed at continuing education professionals: doctors, healthcare executives, nurses, midwives, project managers, etc., who work (or wish to work) as decision-makers and managers in healthcare organizations.
Continuing education students can enter the course directly in 5th year.
PPS also welcomes 4th year students in initial training.
The entry procedure (application + oral) for years 4 and 5 takes place in the spring of each year.
Job opportunities
According to the analysis of the annual survey of graduates of the PPS pathway for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023 :
- 100% of student respondents are employed.
Based on analysis of the annual survey of graduates of the PPS pathway over the
decade 2011-2021:
The majority of graduates surveyed work in the following three job families
:
- senior health executive/head of department (33%) ;
- project manager (29%) ;
- plant manager (14%)
The majority of graduates surveyed work for the following types of employer:
- care and medical-social establishments (59%)
- national administrations, local authorities and health insurance organizations (24%)
- study and research facilities (9%)
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