Assessing the Value of Health Interventions

Catalog description

This course prepares students to evaluate and conduct basic and applied research using cost-effectiveness analysis and other value assessment frameworks to shape evidence-based policy on the use, coverage and pricing of pharmaceuticals and other health interventions. The course uses recent literature to emphasize the connection between methodology and the evolving health technology assessment policy landscape in the US and around the world. Students will gain understanding of methodological, empirical, ethical and political challenges in assessing the value of health interventions (and in using those assessments to affect access, use and payment for health interventions) from the perspective of patients, health systems and society.