Essay #1 (required): Discuss your interest in the International Master of Public Administration program and your reasons for wanting to enroll, drawing on your previous academic experiences, your current intellectual interests, and including any biographical information that may be relevant. (350 word maximum)
Essay #2 (required): (500 word maximum)
In nations all across the globe, health care reform has been, and continues to be, a major public policy and public administration challenge. China is certainly no exception. In 2016, the China Joint Study Partnership published a detailed report on health care reform in China. The Foreword to the report was co-signed by three P.R.C. Ministers (Ministers of Finance, National Health and Family Planning Commission, and Human Resources and Social Security) as well as by the President of the World Bank Group and the Director-General of the World Health Organization. The Foreword to the report read in part: “The report’s main theme is the need for China to transition its health care delivery system toward people-centered, high quality, integrated care built on the foundation of a strong primary care system…The report focuses not only on the top-level design for reform; it also addresses the importance of how to make reform work on the ground.”
a. Do you think that present-day China’s health care delivery system needs to be reformed? Why/Why not?
b. How, if at all, should health care reform address the needs of the growing elderly population?
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https://www.lps.upenn.edu/degree-programs/impa/application
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“Top 5 Reasons to Pursue an I-MPA Degree
Distinguished university
The University of Pennsylvania is a highly selective Ivy League university that was ranked 4th among all American universities in the 2019 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.
Innovative and structured curriculum
This one-year, skill-based graduate professional degree program provides ten carefully constructed, well-integrated courses that train you to become ethical, effective, entrepreneurial leaders.
Diverse faculty
Faculty come from a range of countries—Bangladesh, China, India, the US, and others—most of who speak more than one language, and are leaders in their fields—government, non-profits, social entrepreneurship, consulting, etc.
Leadership and problem-solving
Working in a cohort setting, you conduct research projects and solve real-world problems as individuals, group members, and as a class.
Supportive and dynamic community
Each and every student has an academic and career advisor who meets with the student regularly. The program offers extra-curricular experiences including meetings with distinguished leaders in government, business, academia, philanthropy, media, and other fields; and other networking and social events.
Additional learning opportunities and requirements
I-MPA academic advising and career mentoring
Before Penn I-MPA classes begin—in fact, before I-MPA students participate in their first New Student Orientation meetings—each I-MPA student is assigned an academic and career mentoring advisor, and hears from the advisor. Each I-MPA advisor serves in that capacity for each and all members of a single five-student or six-student Leadership Task Group.
The Penn I-MPA advisor meets and communicates regularly and individually with assigned I-MPA student-advisees throughout the year. In addition, certain extra-curricular experiences bring the I-MPA advisor and all members of a Leadership Task Group together.
In addition to the I-MPA advisor, each I-MPA student also interacts at regular intervals with the I-MPA faculty members and senior staff members who coordinate the program’s academic and career mentoring components. During the spring semester, career mentoring for I-MPA students is the forum for I-MPA students to decide about how and whether to pursue a paid I-MPA alumni fellowship for the summer following graduation.
I-MPA alumni research and service fellowship
In the first summer after graduation, each I-MPA alumnus with a program GPA of B+ or higher is eligible for an FLI Alumni Research and Service (FLIARS) Fellowship. The FLIARS Fellowships are awarded in amounts ranging from $3,000 to $6,000 to each eligible I-MPA alumnus for work in an approved local, national, or transnational nonprofit organization or governance body, or for substantially revising the individual capstone paper (I-MPA 6100). The paper deemed best by the I-MPA faculty review committee receives an additional cash prize and certificate of distinction.”
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