Public Health & Social Policy

Catalog description

The course will advance your abilities to utilize public health principles, practice, and policy to improve population health using liberatory public health frameworks. We will look at policy and practice from a diversity of spaces, including federal, state, and local government (policy with a big P); international laws and bodies (policy with a big P); as well as institutional, organizational, and regulatory policy (policy with a small p). Students in this course will advance their skills in conducting policy analyses, evidence synthesis, communicating and advocating for public health policy; and framing policy problems and solutions all in support of advancing equitable population health.