SS/R: Health Systems Research

3 Credits.

Builds an understanding of the purpose and nature of health systems research and evaluation (HSRE) as a multi-disciplinary endeavor with scope for diverse inferences. Provides a landscape of the range of research questions and associated methodological approaches and study designs within health system building blocks and at various levels of the health system (macro, meso, micro). Explores cross-cutting issues of equity, ethics, social justice and scientific rigor. Fosters the ability to develop different research and evaluation strategies depending on the research question at hand.