Through the program, students will spend four years taking classes at the Alpert Medical School and Brown’s policy department to earn a doctorate of medicine and a master’s of public affairs.
Brown is the first university in the U.S. to offer a program like this, according to the report.
“Healthcare politics is such an important field … and it’s also really one of our most difficult policy problems. Someone who is trained both as a physician and as a policy analyst can really come to these problems … with real skill,” said James Morone, PhD, director of Brown’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy.
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