International Health Policy

Catalog description

The primary aim of this course is to present an overview of health policy issues in low- and middle-income countries and to provide skills in analyzing the health policy process. In addition to providing an overview of policies at the country level to improve health systems performance, the course also looks at the role governments, the private sector, and international health partners play within national health policy frameworks. Factors such as power, context, and governance are analyzed with both the practical and the ethical considerations of how the policy process operates in different cultures. This course helps students develop their own capacities to analyze, criticize, evaluate, and construct policy-oriented arguments.