Child Health Policy and Legal Practice

Catalog description

Child Health Policy and Legal Practice is a 3-credit, interdisciplinary course that will address how law & policy impact child health in the United States and influence parental decision-making over children's health. Additionally, the course explores the role of child-serving systems (family court, education, public health) and how they attempt to maximize child healthcare outcomes, and where they fall short. This experiential course will cover how child health policy is developed, implemented, evaluated, and influenced, as well as the myriad ways child health policy may impact seemingly unrelated policy discussions and decisions. This course is a co-requisite for students enrolled in the Syracuse Medical Legal Partnership Clinic.