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National
Institute of Mental Health Graduate Fellowship Program in the
Economics of Health and Mental Health
at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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For
over twenty-five years, the U.S. National Insitute of Mental
Health has supported doctoral training in the economics
of health and mental health through a traineeship in
the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The program is co-directed by Profs. Barbara Wolfe and John Mullahy.
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The
fundamental goal of the Research Training Program in Health and
Mental Health Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
is to produce skilled economimists with a broad knowledge of
health and mental health areas, or economics more generally,
and of
state-of-the-art econometrics who will engage in high quality
research in health and mental health economics. This program,
administered in a highly regarded department of economics, offers
a unique opportunity to attract exceptionally bright and qualified
students. Trainees can be expected to make major contributions
to the study of the key policy issues in the mental health and
health arenas, as faculty members who will undertake research
and teach future health and mental health policy analysts or
a research/analysts in the private or public sector.
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trainees are pursuing the Ph.D. degree in economics, but Ph.D.
students from other programs (e.g. Population Health, Agricultural
and Applied Economics) with strong interests and backgrounds in
economics have also been appointed as fellows in this program. |
The
program includes formal coursework in economic theory and econometrics,
a set course in a major field, a formal course in health and
mental health economics, a continuing weekly research seminar
on mental health economics which provides trainees with the opportunity
to participate in a mental health research project and supervised
research under participating faculty members (which include faculty
from the Department of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Medicine).
The seminar-based research program involves all steps in a project,
including project design, literature review, formulation of hypothesis,
empirical estimation using large data sets, writing a paper and
formal presentation of the work. Critique of current literature
in mental health economics as well as policy alternatives is
also part of the program, as is exposure to some fundamental
issues in the etiology and epidemiology of mental disorders.
Trainees are encouraged to participate in professional conferences,
to submit papers for publication, and to write and submit proposals
to NIMH.
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For
additional information, please contact Jane Lambert at 608-265-4592
or jflamber@wisc.edu.
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