Curriculum

Healthcare + Business + Leadership = Strategic decision-makers who drive value and positive change.

The Master of Science in Healthcare Leadership offers a rigorous and accelerated curriculum that draws on the expertise of Brown University’s School of Public Health, Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Professional Studies.

Over 12 months, you'll engage in a dynamic learning environment featuring direct faculty interaction and peer collaboration. The program combines healthcare-specific business courses with personal leadership development. You'll study finance, economics and analytics while applying concepts to your capstone project in real-time. Uniquely, the curriculum incorporates AI, machine learning and digital health innovations, drawing from Brown's Digital Health Innovation Certificate.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program you will:

  • Lead Healthcare Transformation

    • Learn to drive strategic change to create flexible, responsive and sustainable organizations across the healthcare industry. 
  • Turn Insights to Action

    • Examine the conditions and limitations of healthcare systems around the world and confront the challenges of reformulating them; Interpret and use data for sound decision making; Promote outstanding healthcare for patients as well as financial health for organizations.
  • Impact Your Workplace

    • Through the Critical Challenge Project and coursework, identify healthcare challenges within your organization and tackle problems in real-time by applying the knowledge and skills learned throughout the program to develop viable solutions.
  • Adopt Multiple Perspectives 

    • Contribute significantly to peer-to-peer learning and collaborate with a unique, cross-industry cohort that offers diverse perspectives and challenges you to think systemically about healthcare. You’ll build an impressive network and make lifelong connections, professionally and personally. 
  • Be Equipped for the Future

    • Develop advanced leadership skills that take your clinical, corporate or public sector career to the next level and help attract and retain the healthcare workforce of the future.

The program’s content is incredibly practical. On day one, I was already using ideas and concepts that I learned in my healthcare policy and finance courses. As the program progressed, I started looking at the healthcare system through different disciplinary lenses.

Dr. Pedro F. Escobar-Rodriguez, Class of 2018 Director of Women’s Services at San Jorge Children’s Hospital in Puerto Rico

Course Descriptions

Examine the complex business of healthcare and advancing technologies while developing key leadership skills.

Courses or modules within this master's program are subject to change without prior notice based on curriculum redesign, faculty input and academic developments. Brown University reserves the right to modify program elements to maintain educational quality and relevance. Students should consult with the program director for the most current program information.