Health Economics

Course Director: Amelia Bond, PhD, MS, MHS

Health Economics is an elective course that introduces students to core economic principles underlying health, health care, insurance markets, and health policy. Through lectures, readings, data analysis exercises in Stata, and applied assignments, students will examine topics such as adverse selection, moral hazard, provider markets, health disparities, pharmaceutical innovation, and the drivers of health care spending. The course emphasizes applying economic concepts to contemporary policy and business issues, equipping students with tools to evaluate health care systems and ongoing health policy debates.