Graduate Health Policy Certificate Courses
Core Courses (any 2 courses)
Economics 215S: Applied Cost Benefit Analysis. Prerequisite: Economics 149. Currently unscheduled. Staff

Economics 356: Graduate Health Economics I. Prerequisites: Economics 243 and 301. Typically offered every Spring. Sloan

Economics 357: Seminar in Health Economics. Prerequisites: Economics 243 and 310. This seminar is only open to PhD students in economics. Sloan

Health Management 326: Economics of Health Care.** Offered every Fuqua Term IV (late Spring semester). Khwaja

Health Management 408: Management of Health Systems and Policy.** Offered every Fuqua Term III (early Spring semester). Schulman

Law 347: Health Care Law and Policy. Havighurst

Public Policy Studies 253 and Political Science 249: The Politics of Health Care. Offered every other Fall. Conover

Public Policy Studies 261: Evaluation of Public Expenditures. Conrad

Public Policy Studies 263S Public Health Issues: Prevention/Management. Offered every Fall. Whetten-Goldstein

Public Policy Studies 264S.84: Getting Value for Money in Health Care: Rationing in Theory and Practice. Vigdor

Public Policy Studies 264S.30: Comparative Health in Developing Countries. Offered every Fall. Martin-Staple

Sociology 227S, B: Social Behavior and Health. George

Sociology 227S, C. Organization and Financing of Health Care. (May not be counted toward Certificate if Sociology 171 is counted.) Currently unscheduled. Staff

PHYSASST 450: Introduction to Health Care Policy. Offered every Fall. Must enroll manually (see course schedule). Staff


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Elective Courses (any 2 courses)*
Community and Family Medicine 247B: Medicine in America. Gifford

Community and Family Medicine 256C: Ethical Issues in Medicine. H. Smith

Christian Ethics 130: Dying and Death. H. Smith and others

Christian Ethics 266: Ethics and Health Care. H. Smith

Clinical Research 242B: Principles of Clinical Research. Prerequisite: CRP 241B Staff

Economics 372: Advanced Theory of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Prerequisites: Economics 301 or 302 or consent of instructor. Currently unscheduled. Staff

Environment 270L: Resource and Environmental Economics. Prerequisite: introductory course in microeconomics. Bennear

Environment 271: Economic Analysis of Resource and Environmental Policies. Prerequisite: Environment 270L or equivalent; Economics 149 recommended. Kramer

Environment 274: Resource and Environmental Policy. Prerequisite: Environment 270L, Public Policy Studies 272, or consent of instructor. Staff

Environment 343: Hazard Management, Law and Ethics. Consent of instructor required. Staff

Environment 385: Environmental Decision Analysis. Prerequisite: Applied Statistics or equivalent. Maguire

Health Management 325.101: Health Care into the 21st Century.** Intensive week long course offered every August. Note: for this course to count as an elective, in addition to the course requirements, a student must complete a 30-page relevant health policy paper for approval by the Certificate Directore. Mendelson

Health Managment 491.201: Information Technology in Health Care. Offered every Fuqua term II. Hammond

Health Management 491.401: Biotech: Management of Drug Discovery.** Offered every Fuqua term IV (late Spring semester). Schulman


History 279: Health, Healing & History. English

Interdisciplinary 300C, Law 580: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medical-Legal-Ethical Issues. Gianturco (Medical), Shimm (Law), Smith (Divinity), and other faculty members from all three schools.

Interdisciplinary 302C: Exploring Medicine: Cross-Cultural Challenges to Medicine in the Twenty-First Century. Staff

Law 235: Environmental Law. Salzman

Law 301: AIDS Law. McAllaster

Law 341: Food and Drug Law. Staff

Law 396: Genomics and the Law. Coleman

Law 555: International Environmental Law (Seminar). Salzman

Law 705: Bioethics. Dame

Liberal Studies 290.30: Adult Development and Aging. Gold

Liberal Studies 290.45: Health Care, Narrative, and Social Theory. Rudy

Liberal Studies 290.52: Madness and Society. Offered every other year in the Fall. Miller

Liberal Studies 290.54: Aging and Health. Gold

Liberal Studies 290.57: Death and Dying. Gold

Nursing 303: Health Services Program Planning and Outcomes Analysis. Staff

Nursing 362: Ethics in Nursing. Staff

Nursing 480: Social Issues, Health, and Illness in the Aged Years. Corazzini

Physicians Assistant 250: Health Systems Organization. Offered every first Summer session. Strand

Political Science 176A & B: Perspectives on Food and Hunger. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Public Policy Studies 251S: Regulation of Vice and Substance Abuse. Staff

Public Policy Studies 264S.05: Policy Challenges of the New Demography. Staff

Public Policy Studies 264S.30: Health Care Policy in Developing Countries. Martin-Staple

Public Policy Studies 264.31: Globalization Health. Staff

Public Policy Studies 264S.32: Matters of Life and Death. Staff

Public Policy Studies 264.51: Alcohol Policy. Cook

Public Policy Studies 264S.65: Responsible Genomics. Cook-Deegan

Public Policy Studies 264S.68: Poverty, Inequality and Health. James

Public Policy Studies 264.70: Social Policy Implementation. Staff

Public Policy Studies 326H: Designing Human Resources Development Programs. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Public Policy Studies 350: Social Policy. Darity

Sociology 171: Comparative Health Care Systems. (May not be counted toward Certificate if Sociology 227C is counted.) Cross-listed as PUBPOL 178. Offered every Spring. Taylor

Sociology 227S, D: Medical Sociology. Lin


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CAPSTONE COURSE (required)
Public Policy Studies 255: Health Policy Analysis. Consent of instructor required. Offered every Spring. Registered certificate students are guaranteed a slot in this semester. Conover