About University of Souther California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal[a] or SoCal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880 by Robert Maclay Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California. The university is composed of one liberal arts school, the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and 22 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 post-graduate students from all fifty U.S. states and more than 115 countries. It is a member of the Association of American Universities, which it joined in 1969.
USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Members of USC's sports teams, the Trojans, have won 107 NCAA team championships and 412 NCAA individual championships. As of 2021, Trojan athletes have won 326 medals at the Olympic Games (153 golds, 96 silvers, and 77 bronzes). USC has had 537 football players drafted to the National Football League, the second-highest number of draftees in the country.
USC has graduated more alumni who have gone on to win Academy and Emmy Awards than any other institution, largely due to the School of Cinematic Arts, and has conferred degrees upon 29 living billionaires. USC presently has ten Nobel Laureates on staff, eleven Rhodes Scholars, twelve Marshall Scholars, six MacArthur Fellows, 181 Fulbright Scholars, and one Turing Award winner.
About the Program:
USC School of Pharmacy Master’s program in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy aims to prepare graduates to execute original research in the discipline-specific to the graduate’s area of emphasis, especially in health economics, comparative effectiveness research, cost-effectiveness analysis, patient-reported outcomes, and health policy analysis. Graduates are employed at leading consulting companies, pharmaceutical and medical device firms, managed care organizations, health insurance companies, and government agencies.
Master's students are trained to use pharmaco-economics and assessment techniques in practical decision-making environments such as managed-care pharmacies, third-party payers, and government agencies. A distinguishing characteristic of the USC Master's Program in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy is the degree to which students are actively engaged in publishable research, either as the lead author or as a secondary author in collaboration with a faculty member.
Master's students enrolled in the program will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of research in all areas of pharmaceutical economics and policy and the ability to work across disciplines.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the microeconomic theory as it applies to the markets for health insurance and health care services.
- Demonstrate methodological skill and an understanding of contemporary research in their respective area of emphasis, and be able to apply innovative research practices to their research under the guidance of their faculty advisor,
- Demonstrate an understanding of the methods used to conduct research in the area of patient-reported outcomes.
- Demonstrate the ability to synthesize and integrate data from diverse sources [e.g., national databases, paid claims data, electronic medical records, clinical trials] into an appropriate analytic database for their research.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the advanced statistical methods required to conduct research on non-experimental data.
- Complete a publishable empirical research paper in their respective area of emphasis under the guidance of their faculty advisor.
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