Pragmatic Health Policy Analysis

Catalog description

Course provides a general (and highly accelerated) overview of the local and national policy-making process and the substance of major public policy challenges (with a focus on US domestic health and welfare policy). It exposes students to the conceptual and analytical perspectives necessary for understanding and influencing the policy-making process. This course will illuminate policy, technical, and normative challenges in areas such as health care, human services, and public health. Students will be able to evaluate challenges facing policy-makers and address key technical, political, and resource constraints to adopting evidence-based policies.