SPI 597 Public Policy Approaches to Health and Healthcare

This course explores the professed and unspoken goals nations pursue with their health systems and the alternative economic and administrative structures different nations use to pursue those goals. The emphasis in the course will be on the industrialized world, although some time can be allocated later in the course to approaches used in the developing countries, if students in the course desire it.
Fall Term; Professor Janet Currie
 

SPI 598 Epidemiology

This epidemiology course focuses on: measurement of health status, disease occurrence, survival, and the association between risk factors and health outcomes; design, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic research studies; and bias and confounding. Other topics include synthesis of epidemiological studies, disease outbreaks, causal inference, social inequalities in health, and research ethics. The course will examine "individual-centered" epidemiology and "macro-epidemiology" to assess population impact and inform health policy. (Prereq: 507b/c or advanced statistics)
Spring Term; Professor Noreen Goldman

The list of approved electives that qualify for Certificate Program credit varies from year to year. The current academic year’s list appears below. Two half-term courses count toward one of the two electives that are required for the Certificate.

Fall 2022

• CBE 411 / MOL 411 Antibiotics: From Cradle to Grave, M. Brynildsen
• COS 597C Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Machine Learning for Health Care, B. Engelhardt
• MOL 460 / STC 460 / GHP 460 Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs, and Choices, D. Notterman
• MOL 559 Viruses: Strategy and Tactics, I. Cristea
• NEU 430 Epigenetics in Neuroscience and Behavior, C. Jensen Pena
• POP 501 / SOC 531 Survey of Population Problems, A. Adsera
• SPI 591e Implementing the ACA, H. Howard and D. Meuse
• SPI 597 Public Policy Approaches to Health and Health Care, J.Currie

Spring 2022

• SPI 566A Topics in Health: Current Challenges in Global Health, A. Sharkey  NEW
• EAS 548 / ANT 548 The Quest for Health: Contemporary Debates on Harm, Medicine, and Ethics, A. Borovoy
• POP 514 Advanced Demographic Methods, A. Hendi
• HIS 492 The Therapeutic Persuasion: Psychotherapy and American Life, K. Guenther
• MOL 433 / CBE 434 / GHP 433 Biotechnology, S. Flint

Half-terms:

• SPI 594d Challenges in State and Local Health Policy, Session I, H. Howard
• SPI 594v Vaccination: Epidemic Dynamics, Policy and Vaccine Hesitancy, Session II, B. Grenfell

   

In exceptional cases, students may be granted special permission to substitute one of the two required elective courses with either a health-related graduate-level course offered by a department outside of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, or a Princeton School of Public and International Affairs graduate level course that is not on the list of approved electives.

Those who wish to receive HHP elective credit for a course that is not on the list of approved electives should seek permission from the Certificate Director before taking the course. Students are encouraged to consult with the Certificate Director about potential HHP courses as soon as they are identified. Elective course substitutions will not be approved after the third week of classes.