HSERV 552 Health Policy Development
SLN 16178, MW 10-11:20, 3 credits
If you’ve ever wondered how health policies are developed and adopted and about the role you can play in the policy arena, you can learn more in HSERV 552, Health Policy Development!
No matter what you do in your future career, policy will somehow touch your work. Health policy is pervasive – it touches transportation and workers’ rights, immigration and health equity, and healthy food access and agricultural practices. Policies offer the opportunity to improve health and improve health equity for the whole community by reaching many people. You will get the tools to understand who makes different types of policies and how, where they come from them and how to better influence them.
Explore about what policies are, agenda-setting, developing policy options, strategic communications, and policy adoption and advocacy, implementation and evaluation. Throughout the course, we will use real-life examples, feature various guest speakers doing this work in practice, and share examples from our own work as practitioners in the health care and public health policy fields.
For questions about the course, reach out to the instructor Molly Firth: mfirth@uw.edu. If you’re interested in enrolling, please email hservmph@uw.edu for an add code.
