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Global Health Entrepreneurship: For-Profit Entrepreneurial Management

Location
Internet
Term
Summer Institute
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Synchronous Online
Start Date
Monday, June 3, 2024
End Date
Friday, June 7, 2024
Class Time(s)
M, Tu, W, Th, F, 8:00am - 12:00pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Contact Name
Melissa Reed
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Next Offered
Only offered in 2024
Description
Provides intellectual frameworks for the special issues associated with healthcare startups in resource-challenged settings. Offers methods for self-assessment and development of business models and plans, techniques for technology assessment and strategy, develops a foundation for capitalization and partnering strategies, and creates a basis for best practices in company launch and plan execution. Provides an intellectual and practical framework for those students interested in exercising their entrepreneurial energy to solve problems in global health with a particular focus on establishing for-profit enterprises in resource-poor environments or Low- to Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Apply epidemiologic and burden of disease insights into services planning
  2. Formulate methods for problem articulation and intervention ideation
  3. Apply patient and community needs to prospective services opportunities that would be viable in a resource-limited setting
  4. Ascertain the impact of public policy and reimbursement practices on defining and executing a care-services model
  5. Assess and apply new technologies and medicines to care in the most clinically and cost-effective manner
  6. Differentiate and evaluate services on the basis of quality, efficiency, and outcomes
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 10% Participation
  • 10% Discussion Board
  • 20% Assignments
  • 60% Business concept feasibility study
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

Instructor is Stephen Sammut