Courses Taught by Holly Jarman
HMP615: Introduction to Public Health Policy
- Graduate level
- Both Executive Masters and Residential
- Fall term(s) for Executive Masters and residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for Executive Masters and residential students;
- Instructor(s): Holly Jarman, Scott Greer, (Residential/Executive Masters);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: Introduction to the PH systems and policy issues PH practitioners face. Overview of public health policy interventions, theoretical motivations, influence of the political, bureaucratic, and social environments in which policy decisions are made, and population health consequences of such decisions.
- Syllabus for HMP615
HMP622: Qualitative Methods for Health Policy Research
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Holly Jarman (Residential);
- Not offered 2024-2025
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: During the course, students will gain experience in creating a research plan, conducting interviews, analyzing interview data, and presenting their qualitative findings to an audience.
- Syllabus for HMP622
HMP685: The politics of Public Health Policy
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Holly Jarman, Scott Greer, (Residential);
- Not offered 2024-2025
- Prerequisites: Grad Standing
- Description: Policy requires politics: behind every positive or negative decision governments make, there are elected politicians, politically skilled officials, journalists, and other stakeholders. Understanding the world of politics is crucial to influencing and implementing policies for public health. Indeed, it is impossible to understand public health policy outside of its political context. This class presents the basic institutions and politics of contemporary public health policymaking through studies of institutions and contemporary policy debates. Through analysis of case studies including obesity, state health plans, smoking and pharmaceutical regulation, students will explore the influence of politics on the definitions and decisions of public health issues. They will leave the class with an understanding of how politics explains current public health policymaking debates and an improved ability to understand the politics of major public health policy issues. This class can be taken as an elective, as a BIC requirement, or in fulfillment of the HMP law/politics requirement.
- Syllabus for HMP685
HMP804: Doctoral Seminar in Health Services and Systems Research II
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 1 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Holly Jarman, Scott Greer, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: HMP804/Medical Sociology and Organizational Theory Module consists of six 2.5-hour weekly sessions, and it will be conducted as a seminar. Before each session, all students are expected to complete the required reading assignments in preparation for a lively and informed discussion in class. In addition, each student is expected to submit a study log, which should include one's reactions, reflections, and questions for discussion. At each session, there will be a division of labor among students in summarizing the assigned readings and leading a discussion of them. The discussion will center on conceptual, analytical, and applied issues, whereas the instructor will serve as the moderator and a sounding board.
- Learning Objectives: Students will gain an initial understanding of the sociological and organizational approaches in health services research and public health. In particular, the students will be exposed selected sociological paradigms, analytical methods, and how they are applied to the analysis of population health, health care, and related policy issues.
- Syllabus for HMP804
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HMP | Health Services Organization and Policy | PhD | Critically evaluate the prior literature in health services organization and policy, including motivation, theory, data quality, methods, results, conclusions, and policy recommendations | HMP802, HMP803, HMP804, HMP805, HMP806, HMP835 | HMP | Health Services Organization and Policy | PhD | Develop research questions grounded in theory to expand knowledge about health services organization and policy | HMP802, HMP803, HMP804, HMP805, HMP806, HMP835 |
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HMP809: Logic and Methods of Medical Care Research(Psych 809)
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Holly Jarman (Residential);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: Principles of the scientific method and the logic of the research process. The logic and methodologies of problem formulation, development of hypotheses and objectives, research design, sampling, operationalism and measurement, coding and analysis strategies. Primarily for doctoral students in Health Services Organization and Policy.
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HMP | Health Services Organization and Policy | PhD | Create a rigorous study design to test the research questions posed and to understand the strengths and limitations of that study design | HMP826, HMP809, HMP835, HMP809 |
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PUBHLTH384: Creating Change in Public Health
- Undergraduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Scott Greer, Holly Jarman, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: [PUBHLTH 200; (C- or better) & Junior or Senior Standing] or Public Health Major
- Description: This course introduces students to strategies as well as best practices and challenges in translating strategies into public health policies, programs and practices. This course provides an overview of stakeholders who create, enact, and assess health promotion strategies. Students will identify, define and evaluate strategies to address public health issues.
- Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the process for tailoring intervention messages based on the specific audiences, content and media channels 2. Discuss the legal, ethical and economic implications of public health policies and interventions 3. Describe principles of planning, implementing and evaluating public health programs and interventions 4. Compare and contrast the roles of various policy-forming bodies (agencies, organizations, governments) in public health promotion 5. Explore various conceptualizations of effectiveness with regard to public health strategies
- Syllabus for PUBHLTH384