Learning Goals

  • Use and produce data to analyze disparities in health outcomes and disease burden.
  • Further develop and create scientific + knowledgeable basis for policy formation in communities with health inequities.
  • Explore how societies and different cultures practice and perceive health behaviors differently.
  • Explore the impact and ramifications of adapting or introducing a policy and its social and cultural influences.
  • Examine how policies and practices historically disadvantage the sick and how we can better meet the needs of those underserved in our communities.
  • Use conceptual framework of policy making to better understand how decision makers use scientific knowledge to guide policy-making