Health System Functions and Key Challenges

This course is a ''bootcamp-style'' course that provides an intensive introduction to the structures, functions and values of health systems and to the health system challenges that give rise health disparities and health inequities, particularly structural biases and discrimination in the health system and in society's institutions, policies & attitudes. These foundations, initially explored in the weeklong, intensive bootcamp, are connected to content in four other required courses throughout the semester. Together, these structural underpinnings provide a basis for understanding the mediators of health and many of the levers for improving health and advancing health equity in diverse contexts.