A REDESIGNED CURRICULUM

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Health Systems, Social Justice and Equity

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of key aspects of the design, administration and function of health systems and their implications for social justice and equity. Health systems are the primary vehicles through which countries deliver health services to their populations. The course aims to equip students with an understanding of how responsibility, authority and accountability for health systems is created and managed, and how health systems are financed and administered, including the roles and implications of private sector involvement and profit in health systems. And the course examines the complex challenges of measuring the performance of health systems, with special attention to the distinction between equality and equity as organizing concepts for improving the fairness and effectiveness of health systems.

Global Health Program Management

Prerequisite: GH 501/500 and GH 560 (either previously or concurrently). This course is specifically designed for those who will be working in low and middle-income countries and/or countries in economic and political transition. You may work in the public sector, the nongovernmental sector, the community or international organizations over the course of your career. In this course, we focus on the primary resources in any organization or program with emphasis on people and money and the processes leading to high performance and quality. While derived from management theory and practice, the focus of this course is less on theory and more on application. This course is focused on increasing your ability to analyze, explain and diagnose managerial and organizational dilemmas and generate solutions that are feasible. This will be done primarily through cases, group discussions, a semester long group project, and shorter applied exercises. Lectures will provide background and theory.