Provides students with theoretical frameworks to understand public health policy issues, introduces public policy making processes, and enables students to analyze position papers on policy topics. Drawing from law, economics, political science, ethics and epidemiology, the course provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand policy-making processes.
Outcomes: Explain how federal, state, and local health policy is formulated, implemented and evaluated; Assess the balance between the public good and individual rights in the policy process in public health.
Outcomes: Explain how federal, state, and local health policy is formulated, implemented and evaluated; Assess the balance between the public good and individual rights in the policy process in public health.