Teaching

PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
  • Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy  •  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  •  Syllabus (2023)  •  Spring 2023–
 
TEACHING FELLOW / GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR
  • Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy  •  Spring 2018; head teaching fellow: Spring 2019, Spring 2020  •  Prof. Robert Blendon, Harvard Kennedy School/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  
  • Essentials of the Profession I – Health Policy  •  Teaching fellow and small group instructor: January 2019, January 2020  •  Prof. Nancy Keating, Prof. Nicole Maestas,  Prof. Ateev Mehrotra, Harvard Medical School
  • Essentials of the Profession II – Health Policy  •  Teaching fellow: March 2019, October 2019  •  Prof. Anupam B. Jena, Prof. Bruce Landon, Harvard Medical School
  • Women’s Reproductive Health  •  Graduate Student Instructor: Spring 2014  •  Prof. Lisa Harris, Prof. Tim Johnson, University of Michigan Women's Studies Department 
  • Politics of Public Policy  •  Graduate Student Instructor: Fall 2014, Fall 2015  •  Prof. Rick Hall, Prof. Barry Rabe, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 
Other syllabi available upon request.
 

 Original course material

Other faculty are welcome to use the material below with the attributions noted in document footnotes. If you have any questions, feedback, or would like a .docx file to tinker with so the material better suits your course needs, feel free to email me. 
 
CASE EXERCISES
Federal Drug Pricing Legislation  •  Used in Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy (2023–) with both written and in-class components
Ohio Issue 1 (Reproductive Rights Amendment)  •  Used in Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy (2024) with both written and in-class components
Medicaid Work Requirements  •  Used as an in-class exercise in Essentials of the Profession I – Health Policy (2019); could be easily tailored to feature a written component
Managing a Medicaid Budget •  Used as an in-class exercise in Essentials of the Profession I – Health Policy (2020); could be easily tailored to feature a written component  
 
OTHER COURSE MATERIAL
Introduction to Medicare  •  Introduction to Medicaid  •  Instructional videos developed for Essentials of the Profession I – Health Policy, based on scripts originally written by Bruce Landon (These will be updated as I identify and correct minor errors.)
Stakeholder Strategy Grid  •  A resource to help students structure and sharpen political strategy memos; used in Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy