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I'm really interested in both public health (particularly epidemiology and health policy) and being a clinician. I'm a Psych Major/Stats minor at a liberal arts college with a solid GPA, neuropsychology research experience, and volunteer experience at a public health non-profit. I'm really passionate about combining the clinical perspective with evidence-based policy--I'm especially interested in problems such as the opioid crisis where clinicians, public health experts, lawyers, social workers, and the criminal justice converge to find what works best, starting from "addiction is a disease" all the way up to the idea of drug courts and changing how society thinks about addiction and drugs. (just one example). How would I be best served? Do Clinical Psych PhDs often get MPHs? Am I better off just getting a PhD in Health Policy? Should I go for an MD-MPH?