The Department of Health Services is the home for an extraordinarily talented and productive group of faculty and students. Their interests are far-ranging, but all share the aim of discovering ways to improve the effectiveness and equity of society's efforts to improve the health of the population.

Dept. of Health Services
Program Affiliations

• Master of Health Administration Program
• Community-Oriented Public Health Practice
• Health Policy Faculty Affinity Group
• MPH Program in Health Services

Professor Dowling served as Chair of the Department of Health Services from 1994-2008. He was first appointed to the faculty in 1974, serving as Director of the MHA Program until 1981. From 1981 to 1994, Dowling was employed as Vice President for Planning and Development in the corporate headquarters of the Providence Health System where he was responsible for system strategic planning, linking system and institutional planning, and government affairs. He returned to the University in 1994. Dowling's main interests are in the development and execution of strategy in health care organizations and in understanding factors that affect organizational performance.

Research Interests:
The relationships between the changing environment of health care, the strategic and structural responses of health care organizations, their management, and their performance; management practice in health care organizations; physicians in management and leadership roles; the medical home model of primary care; rural health care

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