Biography
Michael Harvey, DrPH, is an assistant professor of instruction at Temple University in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy (HSAP). He is also director of the PhD and MPH Health Policy and Management programs that are housed within HSAP. He completed his Doctor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, Master of Public Health at the University of Pennsylvania, and bachelor’s degree at Temple University.
Dr. Harvey has taught courses in global health, comparative health care systems, the U.S. healthcare system, and U.S. health reform efforts—in addition to courses in social and behavioral health theory and the social determinants of health. He is also involved in efforts to develop curricula in ‘structural competency’—or the trained ability to recognize and respond to disease and its unequal distribution as the outcome of social structures (e.g. inequitable policies, institutions, and systems)—for health care providers.
Dr. Harvey’s research interests focus broadly on public health education, social theories of health inequality, the political economy of health, health care systems, and global health. He oversees an ongoing research project exploring health care utilization among indigenous Guatemalan populations in both rural Guatemala and the U.S.
Education
- DrPH, University of California, Berkeley
- MPH, University of Pennsylvania
- BA, English, Temple University
Google Scholar: Michael Harvey's Google Scholar profile
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
HPM 2214 | Politics and Payments in US Healthcare System | Undergraduate |
HPM 3131 | Global Health Systems | Undergraduate |
HPM 5006 | Political and Economic Aspects of Health | Graduate |
HPM 8014 | Comparative Health Policy | Graduate |
HPM 9083 | Readings and Conference in Public Health | Graduate |
HPM 9289 | MPH Fieldwork I | Graduate |
HPM 9389 | MPH Fieldwork II | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Harvey, M. (2021). The political economy of health: Revisiting its marxian origins to address 21st-century health inequalities. American Journal of Public Health, 111(2), 293-300. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305996.
Harvey, M. (2020). How Do We Explain the Social, Political, and Economic Determinants of Health? A Call for the Inclusion of Social Theories of Health Inequality Within U.S.-Based Public Health Pedagogy. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 6(4), 246-252. doi: 10.1177/2373379920937719.
Neff, J., Holmes, S., Knight, K., Strong, S., Thompson-Lastad, A., McGuinness, C., Duncan, L., Saxena, N., Harvey, M., Langford, A., Carey-Simms, K., Minahan, S., Satterwhite, S., Ruppel, C., Lee, S., Walkover, L., Avila, J.D., Lewis, B., Matthews, J., & Nelson, N. (2020). Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities. MedEdPORTAL : the Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources, 16, 10888. doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10888.
Harvey, M., Neff, J., Knight, K., Mukherjee, J., Shamasunder, S., Le, P., Tittle, R., Jain, Y., Carrasco, H., Bernal-Serrano, D., Goronga, T., & Holmes, S. (2020). Structural competency and global health education. Global Public Health. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1864751.
Harvey, M. & McGladrey, M. (2019). Explaining the origins and distribution of health and disease: an analysis of epidemiologic theory in core Master of Public Health coursework in the United States. Critical Public Health, 29(1), 5-17. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2018.1535698.
Guendelman, S., Gemmill, A., Thornton, D., Walker, D., Harvey, M., Walsh, J., & Perez-Cuevas, R. (2017). Prevalence, disparities, and determinants of primary cesarean births among first-time mothers in Mexico. Health Affairs, 36(4), 714-722. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1084.