Community Health and Health Policy

Catalog description

This course will introduce doctoral students to areas of community health and community medicine through lecture, community meetings, and a special project. Students will be able to speak with community stakeholders about important health issues, learning how to develop partnerships for grant writing and other community projects. Students will also learn about policy issues that are impacting health areas of society and certain health disparities that exist. Each student will address a “pressure point” in communities and help develop skills of knowing how to develop a project around this pressing health or social issue.