Health Sciences Public Policy

Catalog description

This course introduces health sciences students to a wide range of topics important to understanding the field of public policy globally and its impact on healthcare. This course brings together ideas from history, political science, communication, social services, healthcare, and economics to address an important question: How have governmental associations and non-profit organizations come to shape and implement public policy to address global healthcare needs? Students will have the opportunity to evaluate current policies that address the most significant domestic and global social and public health issues of today and students will also create a public policy to address a social or public healthcare issue that is of interest to them. Students cannot receive credit for PMG320 and HSC350 as they are considered duplicative