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The Health Policy Design & Implementation Practicum consists of two courses, the Health Policy Toolkit and the Health Policy Project, that prepare students with an operational understanding of health policy and its role in healthcare delivery and population health. Students will enhance their portfolio of health policy expertise by completing: 1) A policy analysis brief on a compelling health policy issue and 2) A mentored health policy project with a healthcare provider or facility. The Health Policy Toolkit (Practicum I) provides students with a global contextual overview of US health policy goals, challenges, and initiatives as well as the frameworks, processes, and tools used by multi-sector actors through public, private, and market systems at the federal, state, and local jurisdictional levels. Students will prepare weekly policy memos and collaborate in conducting weekly health policy case labs focused on key public health and healthcare issues. Students will also complete individual health policy briefs on specific health policy issues of their own choosing.