HHS 400: Health Policy and Politics

Course Description

This course will examine the politics of the health policy process, through a critical review of the roles, relationships, motivations, and strategies of key political actors, structures, and institutions that comprise the policymaking process in the United States. The objective is to prepare students to serve as effective policy or political advocates. We will review and discuss conceptual models of policymaking and politics in order to contextualize real-life health policy processes and decisions. (YR)