Mission and Goals

Mission

The primary mission of the Health Policy and Administration (HPA) graduate program is to:

• Prepare excellent working students in metropolitan Spokane, eastern Washington, and the Inland Northwest region and excellent students nationally interested in healthier communities, for a variety of professional health services management positions; and
• Contribute to community health services enhancement and community health policy development through education, applied research, and service.

Goals

In support of its mission, the goals of the HPA are to:

• Provide working students and students interested in improving and developing healthier communities with the knowledge, skills, and values to be skilled health service administrators and community health policy leaders.
• Conduct research that focuses on domestic (local, state, national) and international community health service management and policy enhancement.
• Serve as a resource for health service organizations, programs, and policy settings in domestic and international communities through service activities and outreach.