What do Duke graduates do with the health policy certificate?

• 8% go on to work advising health policymakers in Washington, D.C. or in state government, including:
  --- DHHS, Emerging Leaders Program (2)
--- DHHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget
--- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
--- National Institutes of Health (2)
--- Presidential Management Intern
--- Senate Select Committee on Ethics
--- State of Massachusetts
--- U.S. Dept. of State


• 20% become health policy researchers, analysts or consultants in "think tanks" or consulting firms, including:
  --- Accenture (3) (Chicago, IL)
  --- The Advisory Board (5) (Washington, DC)
  --- Alpha Center (Washington, DC)
  --- Andersen Consulting, Government Consulting Practice
  --- Boston Healthcare Associates (Boston, MA)
  --- Touche (Atlanta, GA)
  --- Ernst and Young, Health Care Consulting (Atlanta, GA)
  --- Health Strategies Consulting (Washington, D.C.)
  --- HSBC Washington Analysts (Washington, DC)
  --- Lewin-VHI (Fairfax, VA)
  --- Pelavin Research Center (Washington, DC)
  --- Project HOPE
  --- Research Triangle Institute (2) (Research Triangle Park, NC)
  --- Stockamp and Associates (Portland, OR)
  --- Towers Perrin (Boston, MA)
  
• 5% work for universities doing health policy research or other activities, including:
  --- Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services, UNC (Chapel Hill, NC)
  --- Center for Health Policy, Duke University
  --- Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, Duke University
  --- Center for the Study of Aging, Duke University
  --- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University
  --- Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
  --- University of Iowa (Iowa City)
  
• 8% work for "advocacy" organizations that focus on health policy issues, including:
  --- AIDS Action (Washington, DC)
  --- American Association of Retired Persons (Washington, DC)
  --- Association of Homes and Services for the Aged (Washington, DC)
  --- Environmentors Project (Washington, DC)
  --- Families, USA (Washington, DC)
  --- Green Corps (Winston-Salem, NC)
  --- National Association of State Medicaid Directors (Washington, DC)
  --- Public Hospital Pharmacy Coalition (Washington, DC)
  --- Share our Strength (Boston, MA)
  --- The Vaccine Fund (Washington, DC)
  
• 13% work in the health industry, including hospitals, HMOs and law firms doing health law work:
  --- 3HC-- House Health and Hospice Care, Inc.
  --- Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton (Washington, DC)
  --- Concentra Medical Center (Newark, NJ)
  --- Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA)
  --- Duke University Hospital
  --- GKN Driveline (Mebane, NC)
  --- Glaxo SmithKline (Research Triangle Park, NC)
  --- Harborview Medical Center (Bainbridge Island, WA)
  --- Island Peer Review Organization (Lake Success, NY)
  --- Kaiser-Permanente (San Francisco, CA)
  --- State Farm Health Insurance
  --- UI Heart Care, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)


• 7% obtain jobs technically outside of health care, but typically in positions that draw on their knowledge of health policy
  --- Fitch, Inc. (New York, NY)
  --- Goldman, Sachs and Co. (New York, NY)
  --- UNC TV (Research Triangle Park, NC)
  --- Wachovia/First Union, investment banking (Charlotte, NC)
  
• 3% join the Peace Corps or complete military commitments
  --- Hart Fellowship
  --- Military
  --- Peace Corps
  
• 18% are attending or eventually plan to go on to medical school, including:
  --- Johns Hopkins University (2) (Baltimore)
  --- Medical College of Georgia (Augusta)
  --- Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston)
  --- New Jersey Medical School (Newark)
  --- University of Connecticut (Hartford)
  --- University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
  --- University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
  --- University of Vermont (Whooski)
  --- Vanderbilt University (Nashville)
  
• 19% are pursuing or intend to pursue other academic degrees, including law (9%), MBA/health administration/public administration/public policy (4%), health policy and administration/public health (5%):
  --- Duke Law School
  --- Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
  --- Georgetown University Law School (Washington, DC)
  --- Harvard Law School (2)(Cambridge, MA)
  --- Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD)
  --- NYU, School of Public Administration (New York, NY)
  --- Ohio State Univeristy School of Law (Columbus, OH)
  --- St. Louis University Law School (St. Louis, MO)
  --- Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
  --- UNC School of Public Health (3) (Chapel Hill, NC)
  --- University of Idaho College of Law (Moscow, ID)