The Department's faculty have backgrounds in data science, economics, health services research, public health, political science, law, and management science and are highly collaborative with substantial research strengths across a variety of areas, including health care access and delivery infrastructures, quality of health care services, chronic disease burden, maternal and child health, rural health and data privacy. The Department is particularly interested in applicants with training and demonstrated research on health management topics such as strategic management in healthcare, quality improvement and patient safety, implementation science, decision science, organizational behavior, healthcare finance, health systems management, and healthcare administration.