# UC Berkeley-UCSF Health Services Research Training Program

> **NIH AHRQ T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · 2024 · $350,937

## 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 scientific leaders 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 have long-standing health services research
(HSR) training programs. UC Berkeley and UCSF propose a five-year renewal of the joint HSR T32 training
program for four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees. The overall objective of the fellowship program is
to harness collaboration, complementary skills, and training capacity of the two institutions to provide an
outstanding training experience that emphasizes the application of interdisciplinary advances in social,
behavioral, and data sciences to real world challenges of clinicians, healthcare delivery systems, and health
policy makers. The predoctoral program provides rigorous training in research methods central to HSR,
including data science, quasi-experimental methods, econometrics, and implementation science, as well as
opportunities to partner with health care organizations and systems to conduct research that is responsive to
their priorities. Predoctoral trainees are required to have previously completed coursework in epidemiology,
economics, and statistics, and during our program they complete courses in research design, advanced
statistics, health economics, public policy, and organization behavior. The four predoctoral traineeships are
selected on an annual basis and each can be reappointed for an additional year, depending on coursework
and research performance. The postdoctoral program, administered by the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for
Health Policy Studies, is a two-year fellowship program that provides 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, trainees participate in biweekly colloquia at UCSF
and UC Berkeley to expose them to cutting edge research in progress by nationally and internationally
recognized health services researchers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10863863
- **Project number:** 5T32HS022241-12
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
- **Principal Investigator:** HECTOR P. RODRIGUEZ
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $350,937
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-07-01 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10863863

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10863863, UC Berkeley-UCSF Health Services Research Training Program (5T32HS022241-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10863863. Licensed CC0.

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