Healthy Skepticism – Becoming a Thoughtful User of Public Health and Policy Research

Harvard HSPH

The goal of the course is to introduce frameworks and familiarity with how to evaluate and apply common empirical methods in public health and health policy research. Aimed at students who plan to use research to inform their policy and practice roles, the course will aid students in learning how to assess the quality of research and appropriately apply those findings to timely policy questions. We will discuss understanding, interpreting, and generalizing results from rigorous research,…