Our program offers numerous benefits to help position our students for future success. All of our PhD students are fully funded, including tuition remission and stipend, for up to five years through teaching and research assistantships or competitive fellowships.  Many of our students participate in internships that offer real-world experience and networking opportunities in industry, policy analysis and consulting.

The Ph.D. in Health Care (Sub-programmes: Medicine, Pharmacy, Psychology) program aims to prepare highly qualified scientists and academics in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, and psychology by using an integrative and complementary approach. The approach allows for addressing challenges related to human health in order to implement and independently manage research projects at both a national and international level. The aim is also to develop academic competence to ensure education continuity and sustainability.

In today's highly technological and rapidly changing world of health care and hospital management, success requires leaders to have a strong theoretical foundation in management principles, technology, legal and ethical issues, finance, economics, and human relations. This program strengthens the critical and creative thinking skills needed to plan, finance, coordinate, and evaluate health care services. Entrepreneurs, managers, and health care professionals may find here important elements of professional growth and certify their skills. Through reports and the implementation of the final thesis, students will develop the skills necessary to present health care high-quality and competitive offerings. This program uses the A.P.E.L. (Accreditation Prior Experiential Learning) system. It is addressed to 30 years old Managers, Entrepreneurs, Professionals having at least 5 years of industry experience. A Master's degree or equivalent is required to access the program. The entire course is carried out in Distance Learning.

The PhD in Management - Innovation, Sustainability, and Healthcare is a three-year training program leading to research activity in the public and private domains as well as managerial jobs in public and private organizations. The Ph.D. program aims, to train students for academic and managerial positions in both public and private organizations.

Spalding University’s new School of Physical Therapy offers a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)* degree for aspiring physical therapists. This entry-level DPT is a hybrid, low-residency program. Classes are a mix of online lectures and monthly onsite lab experiences.

The Doctorate in Business Administration specialized in Healthcare Management (Healthcare DBA online) at Brentwood University is designed for professionals at any stage of their careers, whether they aim to advance in healthcare management or transition into the field from other industries. This specialized DBA equips students with advanced healthcare management strategies and best practices, preparing them to lead and manage healthcare organizations effectively.

PhD in Healthcare Management will give you the opportunity to pursue your particular personal or professional interest in the leadership and improvement of health services, how they provide treatment for people with physical and mental illnesses, and how they can contribute to health improvement through targeted interventions.

The Rushford Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is a 180 ECTS credits doctoral program designed to equip business students, managers, practitioners, and leaders with high-level knowledge, research, and analytical skills so that they can apply these personal and professional attributes to solve the most complex business problems. In contrast to programs at the master level, the DBA program focuses on the application of theory to real-world business challenges.

As an experienced public health practitioner and student in SPH's DrPH program, you will get the advanced training and credentials you need to move into a leadership position, whatever your speciality area within public health. In this practice-oriented, interdepartmental program, you will learn to develop, implement, and evaluate national and global public health programs and policies.

The Ph.D. program will produce biostatisticians who can develop a biostatistical methodology that can be utilized to solve problems in public health and the biomedical sciences. In addition, graduates of the Ph.D. program will be prepared to apply biostatistical and epidemiology methodology for the design and analysis of public health and biomedical research investigations. Finally, graduates of the Ph.D. program will be well suited to function as collaborators or team leaders on research projects in the biomedical and public health sciences. The program requires competency in the theory of statistics and probability, in introductory and advanced biostatistical methods and theory, and in fundamentals of epidemiologic study design. The doctoral dissertation will be the culminating experience in the Ph.D. program. Graduates of the doctoral program will have written a doctoral dissertation that focuses on the development of a new methodology or on the innovative application of biostatistical methods to a health sciences research problem. Graduates of the Ph.D. program will be in a position to: Demonstrate an increased level of knowledge and understanding of current statistical theory, methods, and practices in the health sciences. Develop new statistical methods. Design, manage data, analyze and interpret data from a variety of experimental and observational studies. Communicate research findings, including new statistical methods developed, effectively to various audiences in writing and through oral presentation The goals of the Ph.D. program are to train students in the application of appropriate statistical methods for diverse problems in medicine and public health and to provide a solid theoretical foundation for the development and investigation of new statistical methods. In addition to the formal statistical training, students will have adequate flexibility in choosing statistical and non-statistical electives to tailor their curriculum towards a specific application area such as genetics, epidemiology, or environmental health.

The Health Services Research program provides an innovative approach to studying the challenges facing the healthcare system and provides evidence to support policy-based solutions. Many of the challenges faced in healthcare result from the choices and behaviors of individual patients and providers. The factors affecting individual decisions are rarely known and the outcomes from these decisions are unclear.