Opinion Writing for Science and Medicine

Harvard HMS

This course is a practicum in writing publishable op-eds on health, science, and injustice. Week by week we dissect how writers use investigations and essays to break through public and institutional indifference - on Medicaid privatization, racist terror, psychiatric abuse, homelessness, and the failures of child welfare. Students will reverse-engineer these pieces to understand not just what was said, but how. Then, through an iterative process of pitch-writing, peer critique, and…