Department: Health Policy

Code Name Description
HRP199 Undergraduate Research Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HRP201A Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial I Seminar series is the core tutorial for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all MS Health Policy students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems and reform and disparities...
HRP201B Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial II Second in a three-quarter seminar series, the core tutorial is for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all MS Health Policy students. Major themes in fields of study including health insurance, healthcare financing and delivery, health systems...
HRP201C Health Policy Graduate Student Tutorial III The third in a three-quarter seminar series, this course is intended for first-year Health Policy PhD students and all Health Policy MS students. The course is structured as a student-led seminar, with participation by the Instructor and other facult...
HRP203 Practical Conduct of Health Policy Research Seminar intended for second year (and beyond) Health Policy PhD and MS degree students and graduate students (at similar levels) in related disciplines. Themes in the practical conduct of research, research process, manuscript and proposal developme...
HRP204 Models for Understanding and Controlling Global Infectious Diseases (HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 154D. Med/Graduate students must enroll in HRP 204.) This course introduces students to the dynamics of infectious diseases of global health importance, focusing on the use of mathematical models to characterize...
HRP207 Introduction to Concepts and Methods in Health Services and Policy Research I Primarily for medical students in the Health Services and Policy Research scholarly concentration. Topics include health economics, statistics, decision analysis, study design, quality measurement, cost benefit and effectiveness analysis, and evidenc...
HRP208 Introduction to Concepts and Methods in Health Services and Policy Research II Primarily for medical students in the Health Services and Policy Research scholarly concentration. Focus will be on developing research ideas and writing proposals for HSPR research projects. In class presentations will occur at the end of the quarte...
HRP209 Health Law: The FDA (Same as LAW 3003) Open to law and medical students; other graduate students by consent of instructor. The FDA's regulatory authority over drugs, biologics, medical devices, and dietary supplements. The nature of the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical...
HRP211 Law and Biosciences: Neuroscience (Same as LAW 3006) Legal, social, and ethical issues arising from advances in neuroscience, including effects upon law and society through improvements in predicting illnesses and behaviors, reading minds through neuroimaging, understanding responsi...
HRP215 Causal Inference for Environment-Health Studies: A Survey of Recent Literature Climate Change is perhaps the defining health challenge of our generation. Yet, despite widespread awareness and prominence, clime change's health impacts are notoriously hard to estimate. This is partly because, after all, we only have one planet, a...
HRP218 Methods for Health Care Delivery Innovation, Implementation and Evaluation Preference given to postgraduate fellows and graduate students.Focus is on implementation science and evaluation of health care delivery innovations. Topics include implementation science theory, frameworks, and measurement principles; qualitative an...
HRP221 Law and the Biosciences: Genetics (Same as LAW 3004) Open to all law or medical students; other graduate students by consent of the instructor. Focus is on ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in our knowledge of human genetics. Includes forensic uses of genetics...
HRP224 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Global & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in s...
HRP227 Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries Application of economic paradigms and empirical methods to health improvement in lower-income countries. Emphasis is on unifying analytic frameworks and evaluation of empirical evidence. How economic views differ from public health, medicine, and epi...
HRP243A Health Policy Seminar: Public Health and Population Health This seminar course is intended to introduce students to the role of policy in the provision of public health and population health in the United States. In addition to speakers from HRP and the School of Medicine, we will be bringing in speakers fro...
HRP243B Health Policy Seminar: Health Care This seminar course is intended to introduce students to the role of policy in the provision of health care in the United States. In addition to speakers from HRP and the School of Medicine, we will be bringing in speakers from outside organizations...
HRP249 Topics in Health Economics I Course will cover various topics in health economics, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Topics will include public financing and public policy in health care and health insurance; demand and supply of health insurance and healthcare; physi...
HRP252 Outcomes Analysis This course introduces and develops methods for conducting empirical research that address clinical and policy questions that are not suitable for randomized trials. Conceptual and applied models of causal inference guide the design of empirical res...
HRP254 Quality & Safety in U.S. Healthcare The course will provide an in-depth examination of the quality & patient safety movement in the US healthcare system, the array of quality measurement techniques and issues, and perspectives of quality and safety improvement efforts under the current...
HRP255 Decoding Academia: Power, Hierarchies, and Transforming Institutions Decoding Academia: Power, Hierarchies, and Transforming Institutions is a new course focused on helping students understand the "hidden curriculum" (i.e., unwritten rules that influence success) in academia as well as pathways toward change. Topics i...
HRP256 Economics of Health and Medical Care Institutional, theoretical, and empirical analysis of the problems of health and medical care. Topics: demand for medical care and medical insurance; institutions in the health sector; economics of information applied to the market for health insuran...
HRP263 Advanced Decision Science Methods and Modeling in Health Advanced methods currently used in published model-based cost-effectiveness analyses in medicine and public health, both theory and technical applications. Topics include: Markov and microsimulation models, model calibration and evaluation, and proba...
HRP276 Introduction to Law and the Biosciences (SAME AS LAW 3012) This course will provide an introduction to the legal, ethical, and policy areas important to understanding Law and the Biosciences. Each topic will include both discussion of the relevant legal rules and ethical principles and the...
HRP285 Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab Are you interested in innovative ideas and strategies for addressing urgent challenges in human and planetary health and creating sustainable societies? This 7 session lecture series features a selection of noteworthy leaders, innovators, and experts...
HRP291 Curricular Practical Training Curricular Practical Training in HRP.
HRP299 Directed Reading in Health Research and Policy Epidemiology, health services research, preventive medicine, medical genetics, public health, economics of medical care, occupational or environmental medicine, international health, or related fields. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consen...
HRP370 Medical Scholars Research Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
HRP390 Doctoral Research Seminar in Health Systems Modeling Restricted to PhD students, or by consent of instructor. Doctoral research seminar covering current topics in health policy, health systems modeling, and health innovation. May be repeated for credit.
HRP391 Health Law: Finance and Insurance (SAME AS LAW 3001, MGTECON 331) This course provides the legal, institutional, and economic background necessary to understand the financing and production of health services in the U.S. We will discuss the Affordable Care Act , health insurance (Med...
HRP392 Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care For graduate students. How to do cost/benefit analysis when the output is difficult or impossible to measure. Literature on the principles of cost/benefit analysis applied to health care. Critical review of actual studies. Emphasis is on the art of p...
HRP399 Graduate Research Investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HRP800 Second Year Health Policy PHD Tutorial The goal of the second year tutorial is to provide PHD students with advanced training in health policy research and to assist them in successfully developing research proposals.
HRP801 TGR Project No Description Set
HRP802 TGR Dissertation No Description Set