Health Policy and Management
IMPACT: HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
From the Classroom to Capitol Hill
This year, the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) shaped the conversation on key public health and health care policies while preparing students to lead in government, nonprofits, and the private sector. With faculty producing evidence to influence federal and state legislation, regulations, and judicial decisions, and alumni driving change across sectors, HPM stood at the intersection of research, leadership, and real-world impact.
BY THE NUMBERS
55+
peer-reviewed journal articles and blogs
$6.5 million
in new research and policy grants and contracts
45
active research and policy projects
400+
MPH and MHA students trained
DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS
- The Amicus Brief Project filed four amicus briefs—including three at the Supreme Court—backed by 115 to 490 public health deans and scholars. The project also submitted four public comment letters, each supported by 65 deans and scholars, in response to Medicaid Section 1115 demonstration waiver requests from Ohio, Arkansas, Arizona, and Georgia seeking to adopt or expand Medicaid work requirements. Learn more.
- For the second consecutive year, HPM has risen in the rankings and is now among the top five HPM departments in the country.
- The MHA residential and executive online programs consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country.
- In January 2025, HPM partnered with the National Capital Healthcare Executives to host the endowed 34th Annual Gibbs Oration and 18th Annual Coile Lecture, honoring leadership and vision before an audience of national healthcare leaders, GW alumni, students, faculty, and NCHE members.
- The department has a new endowed Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy in Alison Barkoff, who follows Professor Emerita Sara Rosenbaum in the role.
- Professor and Chair Anne Markus selected two MHA students and one MPH in Health Policy student as the inaugural CHEF (Chair’s Health Equity Fund, a recently endowed fund) awardees for their internships and projects focused on reducing disparities in renal transplantation services and in health literacy.
- The Center for Health Policy Research and Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health published state fact sheets, scenario simulations, and rapid analyses of the effects of H.R. 1 on labor markets, community health centers, and patients.
- Health economists Avi Dor and Lorens Helmchen expanded the reach of CHESS (Collaborative Health Economics Seminar Series) by collaborating with other local universities, including Georgetown and Johns Hopkins, on DC Health Economics.