The focus of this course is projects on population health management in healthcare settings: patient identification and outreach, screening and risk-stratification, stepped-care treatment to target, follow-up and evaluation.

Students are doctoral students with an existing management degree enrolled in either a clinical concentration (e.g., social workers, counselors, nurses, occupational therapists, etc.) or management concentration (M.B.A, M.H.A., M.P.H, etc.).

The student written assignments require they identify a population for the course, conduct a literature review based on a defined intervention, then design and evaluation of a population health program, including the program costs and anticipated return on investment (ROI).

This course and students are well suited for Riipen partner companies that include population health management programs.

Students work with partner Riipen companies as individuals or in small groups based on interest. This is an 8 week intensive course.

The core deliverables for students are three assignments:

Assignment 1: Population health program problem focus, literature review, problem statement, approach, research questions and hypotheses.

Assignment 2: Population health program design or methods; patient identification, engagement and enrollment, screening and risk stratification, stepped care treat to target interventions, follow-up, and evaluation. A return on investment (ROI) is included in the evaluation section.

Assignment 3: A short video pitch on the population health management program.

Students are encouraged to negotiate with their Riipen business partners how to adapt their classroom assignment to reports suitable for use in the company.