Course Chairs
Janet Coffman, PhD, MPP, MA
Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Beth Griffiths, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Course Description
COVID-19 changed many aspects of our lives over the last two years. Policymakers at the local, state, and federal level are seeking solutions to myriad problems, including health workforce burnout, maintaining appropriate use of telehealth, ensuring food security and maintaining safety-net services, keeping schools safely open, and addressing rising rates of substance misuse and addiction. Rigorous and accurate evidence is needed to guide them, and ongoing data tracking is needed to make sure progress is being made. In this course you will learn from leading health policy researchers about the effects of the pandemic on diverse aspects of our health and healthcare system, including how we make policy decisions based on evidence in real-time, how and from who we receive care, how we deal with the consequences of unhealthy choices made to cope with the pandemic, and how we can protect the most vulnerable among us
Lecture Schedule
May 5, 2022 -
Food and Nutrition Security: Effective and Emerging Policies & Practices
Hilary Seligman, MD Download Presentation
May 12, 2022 -
How Can we Bolster the Safety Net for those Most Impacted by the Pandemic?
Rita Hamad, MD, PhD Download Presentation
May 19, 2022 -
Turning Digital Fumes into a Breath of Fresh Air
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD Download Presentation
A Jay Holmgren, PhD
May 26, 2022 -
Why are People Acting So Weird? Social Disruption, Stress and Substance Use During the Pandemic
Laura Schmidt, PhD
Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP Download Presentation
James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN Download Presentation
June 2, 2022 -
Health Workforce Shortages in the Wake of the Pandemic: What can Policy and Practice Leaders do the Resolve the Crisis?
Joanne Spetz, PhD Download Presentation
June 9, 2022 -
Is There an Off-Ramp for That? K-12 Schools and COVID-19
Naomi Bardach, MD Download Presentation