PUBHHMP 7613
Tobacco Regulation and Policy
This course examines the regulation of tobacco with a focus on the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This course highlights the history, significant provisions and effects of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act, as well as the vital role that public health researchers and professionals play in influencing how the FDA implements the act.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7612
Food and Drug Law
This course will explore various FDA law and policy issues. Cross listed with LAW 8811.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7611
Health Care Law for Managers
Overview of the U.S. legal system as it applies to the U.S. health
care field.
Prequisite(s): Grad standing in PUBHHMP, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit
for 811.
PUBHHMP 7610
Public Health Law
The course will focus on the use of legal tools to improve the public's health. The course will survey the legal framework in which the government may regulate for the public's health, addressing issues including the origins and scope of public health authority, constitutional limits on public health powers, emergency legal preparedness and public health tort litigation.
Prequisite(s): Cross listed in Law 8810.
PUBHHMP 7608
The Role of Science in Health Policy‐Making
This course will explore the role that science, including social science, plays in public health and health services policy‐making. It will consider the conditions under which scientific research findings do and do not influence policy‐making with reference to the nature of scientific inquiry and public policy, the intellectual, institutional and practical similarities and differences between them.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7607
Financial Management of Public Health Programs
Principles of accounting and finance applied to the management of public health agencies and programs.
Prequisite(s): An introductory accounting course and enrollment in MPH Program or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 823.
PUBHHMP 7606
Applied Health Policy
Introduction to public policy concepts and processes as they apply to the organization, financing and delivery of health services.
Prequisite(s): 6609 or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7605
Introduction to Health Policy
Introduction to public policy concepts and processes as they apply to the organization, financing and delivery of health services.
Prequisite(s): 6611 or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7603
Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs
Intended to give students an overview of the theory and applications of cost‐benefit analysis, cost‐effectiveness analysis, cost‐utility analysis and related forms of economic evaluation of interventions in the health care sector.
Prequisite(s): Grad standing or permission of instructor
PUBHHMP 7602
Health Insurance and Payment Policy
This course examines the health insurance mechanisms used to pay for health care in the United States, system origins, incentives and policy.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in PUBHHMP or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 802.