HLT POL 220Research Methods for Improvement/Implementation Science
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Formerly numbered 225C.) Design and implementation of studies of dynamic interventions, including improvement initiatives and pragmatic clinical trials. Provides skills in research methods for improvement and implementation studies in clinical settings (including community-based settings) and health systems. Completion of improvement research projects that demonstrate student competence in design and implementation. Fundamentals in research design and methods for conducting rigorous inferential evaluation in real world of implementation science, with emphasis on methods for generalizing results of improvement and implementation studies involving dynamic testing. Emphasis on case studies and applications so students gain skills in design and implementation.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 215 or 416.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
HLT POL 220
- HLT POL 215Applied Methods for Improvement/Implementation Science
- HLT POL 416Improving Systems
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.