Doctor of Health Administration

DHA

Why This Program & What You'll Learn

The DHA degree at Central Michigan University is designed for health care leaders eager to research and collaborate to solve real-world health care challenges. You'll gain an advanced academic, relevant, and professionally-oriented education. You'll combine theoretical foundations with applied skills and practical expertise. It's the ideal base for senior leadership positions within the health care industry.

This program is delivered in a cohort format. You'll study research and work alongside a close-knit group of senior-level managers from a variety of health care disciplines and organizations. Together you will:

• Learn theoretical foundations, applied skills, and practical expertise required for leadership positions within the healthcare industry.
• Impart and advance skills that foster life-long learning.
• Investigate and test practices and operational models via data/evidence-based strategies.
• Look to report new findings within the healthcare field.

This balanced program course of study is delivered in a sequence of:

• Fifteen internet-based courses.
• Six intensive face-to-face, two-and-a-half-day seminars.
• A general comprehensive examination.
• An applied research dissertation.

Program Highlights

With a doctorate in health administration, you'll:

• Expand your knowledge of leadership, change management, influence strategies and planning processes.
• Sharpen your skills in human interaction and communication at both the individual and organizational levels.
• Explore health communication, health care delivery models and economics, informatics, policies and compliance, and information technology.
• Deepen your expertise in qualitative, quantitative and research methods to evaluate and apply decision-making concepts.
• Broaden your experience with contemporary human resource issues including diversity, poverty, human rights, sexism, racism and unionization.
• Learn about the role of values and ethics in modern health care organizations.