Research Methods for Health System Analysis

Harvard HSPH

This course is designed to help students learn about methods for health system research, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The study of health systems differs methodologically from the study of population health in important ways. Health systems are large, complex, interactive systems. As such, the methods used for inference and analysis in population health (randomized controlled trials, and observational empirical studies that seek causal inference by seeking to approximate…