SS/R: Public Health Policy in the Misinformation Age

2 Credits.

Reviews basic skills of public health policy and politics, including key definitions and principles, assessing policymakers, formulating and analyzing policy questions, and advocating for change. Discusses challenges of policy discussion amid a sea of misinformation and disinformation and the decline in traditional news media, as well as new opportunities for working with nontraditional media to advance consideration of major public health policy issues.