Policy in Public Health

Catalog description

This course is designed to generate competencies in (1) discussing the public health policy process including the roles of ethics and evidence in the development of policy options; (2) proposing strategies to identify stakeholders and develop coalitions to influence public health policy; (3) advocacy for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations; and (4) evaluating policies for their impact on public health and health equity. The course contributes to these competencies by (1) building the knowledge base for health policy issues using an economic perspective as a foundation for evaluating policy; (2) exploring aspects of the health policy process including the use of evidence and political feasibility; (3) practicing policy analysis on a topic of choice using a defined sequence of stages from problem statement to recommendation; and (4) examining the art of political decision-making via values and narratives used in the policy development process.