Quantitative Methods for Program and Policy Evaluation

School of Medicine

This course addresses the evaluation of changes in the health care delivery system, either through programs specifically implemented to achieve such changes or through changes in health care delivery/financing policies. The primary designs--before/after, concurrent/retrospective control, interrupted time-series--and their strengths and limitations. The course includes didactic lectures and small group critical reading/presentation of current program/policy evaluations published in leading medical journals. This course is required for students in the Health Policy track of the M.P.H. Program. Prerequisite: Epidemiology II, Biostatistics II, or approval of instructor.