The Mailman School of Public Health unites a world-class faculty, a talented and diverse student body, unparalleled hands-on research and learning opportunities, and an alumni network of leaders in their fields. These attributes combine to inform our dynamic and comprehensive curricular offerings that prepare students to make a vital contribution to improving population health.
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Class: Governance, Law & Ethics
Department: Public Health
Code: P8514
Call: 81396
Section:001
Instructor: Heather Butts
Semester: Spring
Description
This course is intended to provide students with the legal framework governing health care administration, management and policy. Students will analyze case law, and selected statutes relevant to health care administrators, providers, and consumers of care. Students will be exposed to the evolution of laws and the ethical, practical and political impact of laws in the management of health care institutions
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Class: Mass Incarceration and Public Health in America
Department: Public Health
Code: P6770
Instructor: Ernest Drucker
Semester: Spring
Description
This course will analyze the evidence relating to mass imprisonment as an important public health phenomenon ? one that has generally not been recognized as such. More than the sum of individual crimes and their punishment, mass imprisonment is mass trauma – a population exposure profoundly affecting tens of millions of Americans and their families, as well as the (mostly poor) minority communities in which its impact is concentrated. The history and social dynamics of mass incarceration will be examined as one consequence of the US war on drugs, beginning in 1975 and continuing to the present. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: Define mass incarceration as a public health phenomenon; identify the populations most affected by mass incarceration; explain the role of drug laws on the public health impact mass incarceration; identify the causes and significance of prisoner reentry and re-assimilation; identify the risks of recidivism and its consequences for the epidemiology of mass incarceration; analyze the effects of chronic recurrent incarceration on individuals, families, and communities; evaluate alternatives to mass incarceration. Grading will be based on participation in class discussion, weekly comments on required readings and media clippings, and a final paper.
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