Courses

Harvard University offers several courses dealing with the themes of the PGDA. For more information, click on the links below.

Global Demography of Aging:

• SOC-ANAL 76 Global Health Challenges
• QUANT-REAS 341 Counting People: Demography and Human Affairs

Measurement:

• GHP220 Introduction to Demographic Methods
• GHP535 Applied Demography Analysis
• GHP503 The Determinants of Fertility and Mortality
• PSY 980 Aging and Cognition
• BIOLE 179 The Biology of Aging
• EPI254 The Epidemiology of Aging

Social Determinants of Health / Role of Social Networks:

• SOCIOL 190 Life and Death in the US: Medicine and Disease in Social Context
• SOCIOL 390 Health and Social Structure
• SSH 278 Society, Human Development and Public Health
• SHH 227 Psychosocial Aspects of Aging

Macroeconomics of Aging:

• GOV 1180 Comparing Welfare States
• PED 101 Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and Evidence
• PED 130 Why Are So Many Countries Poor, Volatile, and Unequal?
• GHP 294 International Health Economics I
• API 130 Public Finance in International Perspective
• ECON 970 The Economics of Health and Development

Medicare:

• ECON 1460 Economics of Health Care Policy
• 38090A-1/F Health Care Law
• HPM208 Health Care Regulation and Planning
• HPM235 Managing Health Care Costs