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380.771.01
Understanding and Changing International Reproductive Health Policy

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Wednesday, 9:00 - 11:50am
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Introduces students to policy analysis and issues in reproductive health, especially international family planning. Students learn how to analyze policymaking processes and ways to influence these processes through evidence-based advocacy. Case studies are used to analyze policies. Focues on FP2020, the international partnership launched at the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012. The instructors present an “insider’s” perspective for most cases and will draw heavily on Advance Family Planning (AFP), a multi-country advocacy initiative. Training in the AFP SMART approach to advocacy is a core part of the course.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Discuss and analyze multiple dimensions (including the role of ethics and evidence) of the reproductive health policy making process of the U.S. government and other donors, the United Nations, and selected developing countries
  2. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity through analysis of how reproductive health policies affect programmatic and budgetary decisions
  3. Explain how reproductive health policies are different from other health and development policies
  4. Identify and assess external factors that influence the reproductive health policymaking process and its implementation
  5. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations through: a) development of a decision-maker focused advocacy objective and rationale, and request for action at national or subnational levels within developing countries; b) presentation of a rationale for maintaining or graduating foreign aid to a developing country family planning program; c) class discussion
Enrollment Restriction
No undergraduates