HLT POL 286American Political Institutions and Health Policy
Health Policy and Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
To effectively participate in policy process as analyst, policymaker, advocate, or citizen, it is necessary to understand institutional and political context within which policy is made. Introduction to federal and state policy-making, with focus on health policy. Discussion of federalism and constitutionalism. Examination of stakeholders, public, interest groups, and nature of issue space for health policy. Structure and process of political institutions at federal level, Congress, President, executive agencies, courts, and administrative law. State responsibilities and federal/state relations. How analysis enters policy process with examination of roles of federal analytic agencies and private research and advocacy groups.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
HLT POL 286
- HLT POL M259Smoking, Drinking, Shooting, and Driving: Understanding Public Health Policy in U.S.
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.