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Social Sciences Track
In 2005, a separate track of the MD-PhD Program in the social sciences was
established to encourage and support a community of future leaders in areas
such as health policy, anthropology, psychology, economics, and history of
science.
Graduate study may be pursued in programs such as biological or medical
anthropology, biological
sciences in public health (BPH), economics, health
policy, history
of science, government, psychology, sociology, statistics,
or other programs with relevance to clinical medicine.
The program seeks to educate future leaders in medicine
and the social sciences who will work to integrate research
and teaching in these critically important disciplines.
Studies typically follow a sequence in which students complete the first two
two years of medical school before pursuing graduate research in the Harvard
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) or Harvard
School of Public Health (HSPH). Students return
to complete their final two years of medical school following the completion
of their PhD requirements. Undergraduate applicants interested in applying
for admission and funding to support the study leading to the MD-PhD
degrees in the social sciences must apply simultaneously to both HMS
and GSAS by the specified deadlines.
Dr. Anne E. Becker has been appointed to the position of Director of the MD-PhD Program in the Social Sciences.
Updated:
July 16, 2008
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