This course will examine recent developments in health policy from strategic, economic, and political lenses. The course has three objectives: to enable students to keep pace with key changes in the healthcare field; to promote students’ ability to analyze, and form policy and organizational responses, to new developments; and to promote students’ ability to integrate material from prior courses. Students will apply frameworks and skills developed in earlier courses to assess the forces driving these developments in health policy and to develop strategies for health care organizations to respond to these new developments. Each week of the course will address a broad area of health policy, such as cost containment, vertical and horizontal integration, quality improvement, technological innovation, health professionals, insurance coverage and managed care.