COURSE NUMBER: MBA297A.1

COURSE TITLE: Healthcare in the 21st Century

UNITS OF CREDIT: 3.0

INSTRUCTOR: Kristi Raube

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MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Monday/Wednesday, 11:00AM - 12:30PM

PREREQUISITE(S): None

CLASS FORMAT: Lecture, cases and discussion

REQUIRED READINGS: Required course reader

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Cases, quizzes, final presentation, and class participation

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:

This course provides a systematic overview of the management challenges in the U.S. health care system, as well as a few other selected countries. Students analyze the delivery system, the financing, and the suppliers to the US health care system. It is designed to provide students with:

1. understanding of the health delivery structure, payment system, and suppliers, especially in the US, but also in a few selected countries in Europe and among emerging economies

2. applications of social science theory, disciplinary contributions, and research findings to the understanding of significant problems of health systems;

3. reviews of current sources of data about health status, health services use, financing, and indicators of the performance of the health delivery system;

4. analyses of select healthcare-focused business opportunities/challenges, and

5. insights into the management and policy issues that drive efforts to reform the health services system.

This class is required for the joint MBA/MPH degree. It prepares students to take more advanced course work in the strategic management of health services, health care finance, and health policy analysis.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Kristi Raube, PhD is an Adjunct Professor at the Haas School of Business and the Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Health Management at the University of California Berkeley, a program that prepares students for leadership roles in all aspects of healthcare, including care delivery and financing, biotechnology and medical devices, information technology, and consulting. She is also the Executive Director of the International Business Development Program, a global management consulting program at Berkeley-Haas. In addition, she is the Associate Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact, whose mission is to inspire and empower members of the Berkeley-Haas community to develop innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges.

Dr. Raube has worked to increase health management capacity through executive education and program development in the US and around the world, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Her research focuses on the delivery and financing of health services and she has evaluated a large number of health programs, including ones focused on physician payment, quality of care, access to care, infant mortality, and community-based health care. Dr. Raube received her doctorate in public policy from the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, her masters in public health from UCLA, and her bachelors of arts degree in biology from the University of Colorado.