Researching, Analyzing and Profiling Global Health TIPS1

Catalog description

This course grows students’ awareness of and engagement with significant, urgent, and uncertain global healthcare (HC) issues and policies, with an emphasis on their equity considerations and outcomes. This course provides data and evidence-driven “real-world” contexts and applications. Students will examine subject matter areas that their research has the highest potential of producing valued guests (i.e., analyzing data and translating evidence and science into policy) for stakeholders, especially HC organizational leaders, practitioners, and policymakers. Practical knowledge will be developed in conducting issues research and policy analysis, shaping different briefs and communicating findings for leadership audiences, developing partnerships, promoting, and implementing evidence- based interventions. Lastly, it aims to connect how students can help move data and evidence-based insights about problems toward desired actions and improvement of health and medical practices.