Policy Analysis and Priority Setting in Health and Medicine

This course introduces evidence-based priority-setting in health and medicine and its key quantitative methods, with particular attention to economic evaluation for health policy assessment. The course assesses the state of current practice in national and global priority setting, describes new tools and methodologies to establish health policy priorities, and tackle important ethical and distributional issues that decision-makers must consider in allocating limited health resources. The course, involving didactic instruction, student-led discussion, policy debate, and a course project, helps students better understand priority-setting processes and research methodology.