Advising

Stanford Health Policy (SHP) is committed to delivering academic advising to support graduate students’ scholarly and professional development. When most effective, this advising relationship entails collaborative and sustained engagement by both the advisor and the advisee. As a best practice, advising expectations should be periodically discussed and reviewed to ensure mutual understanding. Both the advisor and the advisee are expected to maintain professionalism and integrity.

Faculty advisors guide students in critical areas such as selecting courses, designing and conducting research, developing teaching pedagogy, navigating policies and degree requirements, and exploring academic opportunities and professional pathways.

Graduate students are active contributors to the advising relationship, proactively seeking academic and professional guidance and taking responsibility for informing themselves of policies and degree requirements for their graduate program.

SHP programs adhere to the advising guidelines and responsibilities listed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education opens in a new tab and in the Graduate Academic Policies and Procedures opens in a new tab manual.  

See the Graduate Advising for a statement of university policy on graduate advising.