Spring Course HSERV 572: Planning, Advocacy, & Leadership Skills
HSERV 572: Planning, Advocacy and Leadership Skills
MWF 2:30-3:50; 4 credits
SLN: 15016
If class is closed, contact hservmph@uw.edu for waitlist (has plenty of spots at this time)
This class is an opportunity to master basic concepts, analytic tools, and skills for program and policy planning, advocacy, evaluation and leadership skills under the close mentorship of faculty and teaching staff. You’ll also learn from your peers in an interdisciplinary and applied setting. This unique course engages MPH and other graduate students with real-world public health problems, partnering with local community health organization clients. We will be building skills and competencies in a number of topics, skills, and processes to help you complete your project.
The course is suitable for graduate students from any school or college who want to deepen their understanding of how public health professionals lead program development, program evaluation and policy advocacy projects to advance population health. It is not open to undergraduate students.
Projects offered include:
- Work with the Seattle-area Yemen Relief & Reconstruction organization to develop an advocacy campaign
- Assess savings associated with serving homeless patients requiring post-hospitalization care in a respite facility at Harborview
- Work with Metro Transit to develop new (non-criminal) approaches to low-income fare violators.
- Analyze the causes of death of homeless people in King County and propose future options to better track & document
- Help SHARE develop its website
- Design a multi-campus state survey of university students regarding their challenges accessing health insurance
- Work with a Hanford watchdog group to gather evidence about how Washington’s new workers compensation law has changed the number of claims filed, accepted and rejected at Hanford nuclear reservation
- Evaluate the Nickelsville tiny house village site at North Lake Union, in conjunction with the UW Nursing School
- Work with Transit Riders Union to design a campaign to persuade some key large employers in Seattle to offer transit benefits to low-wage workers (think Starbucks, Amazon, etc.)
- Evaluate the Hepatitis Education Project’s new suboxone-on-demand clinic.
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