221.657.11
Costing Global Health Programs

Cancelled

Location
East Baltimore
Term
Summer Institute
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Dagna Constenla
Contact Name
Dagna Constenla
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Description
Do you want to strengthen your skills related to costing global health programs to improve the sustainability of these health programs? Policy makers in low and middle-income countries regularly apply economic principles to healthcare decision-making. To do this well requires expertise in applied health economics.
Provides a solid foundation in the key cost concepts used in the evaluation of global health programs and introduces methods for costing in global contexts. Examines the full scope of the cost of global health programs and the implications of costing to ensure adequate planning and resource mobilization. Focuses on defining costs and rationales for costing, quantifying the cost, and identifying the program components that vary by country and settings. Discusses the challenges of costing global health programs and prepares students to design and execute a cost analysis of a global health program. Includes topics such as taxonomy of costs, sampling, costing perspective, time preference, discounting, annualization, inflation, purchasing power parity.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Define key economic costs and understand their importance in policy decisions
  2. Describe the methods for conducting scientifically-rigorous cost analyses of global health programs and identify the steps involved in conducting such analyses
  3. Identify the challenges involved in performing a cost analysis of a global health program
  4. Apply costing methodology to perform a cost analysis of a global health program
  5. Execute and report a cost analysis of a global health program
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

Those taking the economic evaluation series overlap only in the first two lectures.
Final project is due 30 days after the last day of class.