Organizational Behavior and Health

3 credits · GSB

This course will expose students to the rich and growing literature on health policy, the effects of organizations on health, and the administration of healthcare organizations and health benefits. More importantly, and uniquely, I have enlisted the involvement of a number of health care organizations in both the behavioral and physical health space who will come to class and describe their data as a way of encouraging class participants to both formulate a research question and actually use data to address it during the quarter. This includes more claims data on more than 300 million Americans, mental health treatment and outcome data, KFF survey data on both consumers and organizations that provide health benefits, and several others. I am seeking students who are analytically interested and ambitious to do something significant with an amazing set of data resources.