HSERV 552 – Health Policy Development

HSERV 552 – Health Policy Development

Autumn 2014

Monday/Wednesday, 10 :30 – 11 :50am, SCC 303

Prerequisites : Graduate students only

Course Description and Goals

Health Policy refers to decisions that guide organizational and individual behaviors affecting health and the financing, delivery, and use of health services.  Using contemporary health policy issues, we will examine how science and community values intertwine in health policy development, how context (e.g., ideology, culture, and history) influence the structure of and changes to a nation’s health system, and how international treaties and relationships can affect health and health services.  We will also discuss the important relationship between how a society measures success, its public policies, and how it allocates and distributes resources.

You will learn about health policy development in this class through a combination of methods, including case studies, problem based learning (PBL), small and large group discussions, group projects, role plays, and written and oral presentations … your learning will be largely through processes of self-discovery.  This course includes few traditional lectures.

Instructor: Aaron Katz, garlyk@uw.edu

Aaron Katz is a principal lecturer of Health Services, Global Health, and Law at the University of Washington School of Public Health where he teaches several graduate level courses in health policy.  Aaron has held numerous academic leadership positions, including his current role as faculty coordinator of the Health Systems and Policy Concentration of the Health Services Master of Public Health (MPH) program and as founding director of the Leadership, Policy, and Management track of the Global Health MPH program.  He was director of the UW Health Policy Analysis Program from 1988 until 2003 and editor-in-chief of the School’s biannual journal, Northwest Public Health, from 1999 to 2008.

Aaron received the American Public Health Association’s Award for Excellence in November 2006 and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the UW School of Public Health in 2004.  At the 2011 “State of Reform” Washington Health Policy Conference, Aaron received the Health Reform Leadership Award.

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