# UC Berkeley-UCSF Health Services Research Training Program

> **NIH AHRQ T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · 2021 · $262,977

## Abstract

Project Summary
During this time of rapid evolution and uncertain future in the US healthcare system, it is
critical that the US prepare a new generation of thought leaders and policy makers with the
interdisciplinary training, flexible critical thinking skills and real-world grounding to provide the
necessary leadership to make sound decisions for our future. The University of California,
Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), widely regarded
as two of the top public universities in the world, both feature long-standing traditions of high
quality health systems research and training. UC Berkeley and UCSF jointly propose a five-
year T32 training program for four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees in health
services research (HSR).The overall objective will be to harness the historical collaboration,
complementary skills and training capacity of the two institutions in a formal and intentional
way to provide an outstanding training experience. The partnership combines UC Berkeley’s
expertise in economics, organizations, management, and population health sciences, as well
as its experience managing a long-standing HSR T32 predoctoral training program, with
UCSF’s experience as a premiere health sciences research and patient care delivery
institution, with expertise in graduate and post-graduate training. This enhanced training
program will emphasize the application of interdisciplinary advances in social and behavioral
sciences such as behavioral economics, implementation science, and social determinants of
health, to real world challenges of clinicians, healthcare delivery systems, and health policy
makers. Predoctoral trainees are required to have previously completed coursework in
epidemiology, economics, and statistics, and all complete a year-long intensive core course in
HSR and health policy, which emphasizes research methods and the application of social and
behavioral science theories central to HSR. The four predoctoral traineeships are selected on
an annual basis and each can serve no more than two years. The postdoctoral program
builds upon UCSF and UC Berkeley’s decades of collaborative experience in administering
postdoctoral programs in health policy and clinical research. Postdoctoral fellowships extend
for two years and focus on providing intensive experiential HSR training to doctorally-trained
social and behavioral scientists, as well as doctoral-level health professionals with the
equivalent of an MPH degree. Throughout their training, all HSR T32 trainees attend biweekly
HSR colloquia integrated between UCSF and UC Berkeley to expose them to cutting edge
work in progress by nationally and internationally recognized health services researchers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10189691
- **Project number:** 5T32HS022241-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
- **Principal Investigator:** HECTOR P. RODRIGUEZ
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $262,977
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-07-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10189691

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10189691, UC Berkeley-UCSF Health Services Research Training Program (5T32HS022241-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10189691. Licensed CC0.

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