Courses - Spring 2025
HLSA300
Introduction to Health Policy and Services
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in SPHL100 or PHSC300.
Restriction: Must be in Public Health Science program; and must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Credit only granted for: SPHL498P or HLSA300.
Formerly: SPHL498P.
A multidimensional view of public health policy and services. Through interactive discussion of assigned readings, team-based learning, and supplementary lecture, students will learn about the nature of and development of policy, public health policy, and financing and delivery of health care services. This course will place a significant emphasis on a team-based learning approach to understanding the health care system and health care reform.
Restricted to College Park students in the Public Health Science major (code: 12140).
HLSA484
Redesigning Health Care: Developing a Clinic to Meet Community Needs
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Must have completed a minimum of 60 credits.
Additional information: Selected class sessions will be on-site at local organizations such as Mona Clinic in Temple Hills, MD, HAIR Network shops in Hyattsville and the Sarvis Empowerment Cafe in Riverdale. The course also requires off-campus work at nearby locations.
Provides an opportunity for students to learn a key entrepreneurial skill, Human Centered Design Thinking, while helping to build, reshape, redesign and transform delivery of health care in the Mona Center, a new community center and clinic in Prince George's County. This new, modern vision for a health and wellness clinic embraces student involvement in designing, planning and contributing to innovative programs, solutions, and processes to improve the clinic's ability to meet community and patient needs by addressing the social determinants of health as well as traditional clinical health status. Students in the class will develop empathy for patients, providers and other stakeholders, define problems, select a specific problem for intervention, understand problems based on stakeholder input, ideate, reframe and suggest options to solve or address the problem, prototype solutions, test ideas, and make recommendations to inform implementation and ongoing measurement and monitoring of impact.
HLSA688
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HLSA709
Graduate Seminar
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
S-F, Aud
HLSA710
Healthcare Management: Foundations and Principles
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Concepts and managerial activities essential to achieve the goals of health care organizations are examined and discussed. Managerial processes include planning, decision-making, etc. required to operate and change health care organizations will be discussed. Special emphasis will be placed on the leader/managers role in developing and maintaining an effective system for providing healthcare.
HLSA711
Health Economics and Analysis
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Provides an analysis of health and health care services as economic goods. Using microeconomic theories, we will examine the behavior of health care providers, consumers, markets, and firms.
HLSA714
Economic Evaluation of Medical Care
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: HLSA601 and SPHL602; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
An overview of the theory and applications of cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and related forms of economic evaluation/decision analysis in the health care sector.
HLSA715
HSR Data Lab
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Corequisite: HLSA725.
Introduces students to foundational skills in statistical programming and surveys data types and data sources commonly used in Health Services Research (HSR). Principals of statistical workflow and reproducibility are covered. The course focuses on programming in Stata, but also provides a very brief introduction to R and SAS.
HLSA720
Health Law and Ethics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
The legal system helps determine the relationships prevailing among individuals, institutions and governments by setting out the rights, duties and powers of the various parties. This course will look at some of the more important concepts the law uses within the context of health services and public health.
HLSA721
Using Demographic Data for Health Policy Analysis
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: SPHL602; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department; or permission of instructor.
Additional information: Priority enrollment will be given to students in the Department of Health Services Administration programs.
The goal of this course is to introduce students to the major demographic data sets that are used in health policy research and to provide hands-on experience using these data to answer policy oriented research questions
HLSA723
Health Policy Analysis and Advocacy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: HLSA601.
Examination of the politics of the health policy process, including the effects of American political structure and institutions; economic and social factors; interest groups, classes, and social movements; media and public opinion, and other factors. The emphasis is both on understanding how public policy is made as well as how to influence the process.Students will learn about (1) how health policy is developed, adopted, and implemented, (2) the political, institutional, economic, social, and other factors that influence and shape the process, and (3) the basic approaches and tools of strategic advocacy.
HLSA725
Econometrics in Public Health
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: SPHL602; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department.
Additional information: priority enrollment will be given to students at the School of Public Health.
Empirical course to introduce students to econometric methods and their applications in public health.
HLSA740
Healthcare Strategic Planning and Marketing
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
An understanding of strategic management and marketing is provided which enables the students to lead the process of strategic planning in a healthcare organization. By conducting a marketing and strategic planning process, health care organizations are better able to cope with dramatic changes in technological, social, political, regulatory, and competitive aspects of the health care market. Strategic management enables organizations to identify issues unique to them, which hinder or promote organizational success. Through course readings, class discussions, analyses of secondary quantitative and qualitative data, and presentation of case studies, students gain a thorough understanding of the strategic management process. Students will apply core competencies through a comprehensive strategic and marketing plan. Plans will be defended through an oral presentation.
HLSA760
Healthcare Financial Management
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Offers content in health services financial management with emphasis on applying traditional financial theories to health care and the health care system. Focus on decision-making using accounting and finance theories, principles, concepts and techniqes most important to health care leaders.
HLSA766
Foundational Readings in Health Services Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
S-F
Prerequisite: Completion of the six HLSA Health Services Research core courses.
Restriction: Must be in Health Services Ph.D. (Doctoral) program.
An overview of the foundational papers that inform health services research and its related disciplines; including literature on key conceptual models, classic empirical studies, and research illustrating cutting edge methods or findings. The major theoretical frameworks and empirical challenges of the field will be examined through critical reading and discussion among students. The course is organized around preparation for the qualifying exam in the Health Services Ph.D. program.
HLSA772
Healthcare Leadership and Communications
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Health care administrators rely on transformational leadership skills and insights to help their organizations rise to the social financial, public health, and technological challenges of the future. Students will assess and develop their leadership strengths, apply key leadership communication principles, and critically analyze relevent leadership models, exploring their utility in addressing key leadership issues in health care organizations. An underlying theme will be the identification of core values involved in health care delivery, integration of those values in personal and organizational missions, and effective communication to stakeholders.
HLSA778
Practical Experience in Public Health
Credits:
1 - 4
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Internship and seminar providing an opportunity to apply previously acquired knowledge and skills in a health or allied health organization. Setting of the internship will depend upon the student's background and career goals.
HLSA780
Qualitative Methods for Health Services Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Qualitative research is a multi-methods approach to the study of social interactions in natural settings. Through triangulation of methods, the researcher attempts to make sense of, or interpret, phenomema in terms of the meanings people bring to them.
HLSA786
Capstone Project in Public Health
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Permission of SPHL-Health Services Administration department.
Capstone experience provding opportunity to apply knowledge and skills to a specific public health problem or issue. Completion of project relevant to public health under the direction of an advisor.
HLSA787
Health Equity Practice, Policy, and Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Restriction: Must be in a graduate major in SPHL-School of Public Health; or permission of instructor.
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the role of key stakeholders, including health care systems/organizations, governmental agencies/entities, and community-based organizations in advancing health equity to improve population health. Students will develop a set of foundational practices that centers health equity and social justice to develop, understand, evaluate, analyze, and apply health equity strategies in practice settings. This class is designed to build the capacity of students to translate theory into action and support a dynamic process of learning.
HLSA799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
HLSA898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
HLSA899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
S-F
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