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HP435 ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW:
POLICY REPORT
Summative assignment: 4,000-word policy report
(100% of your overall course mark; due 24 January 2023)
Formative assignment: 1,000-word outline of your report
(Not graded; due 28 November 2022)
There are many challenges in the world of access to medicines that remain
unsolved. This is your chance to investigate a contemporary policy issue that
interests you and to write up a report for policymakers on how to address it!
GENERAL REMARKS
The central aim of this assignment is for you to define a policy issue, summarize
what is known about the issue in the literature, and draft concrete policy
recommendations (based on your reading of the evidence). My hope is that, in the
process, you’ll sharpen both your critical analysis and writing skills.
This assignment will require you to break a complex problem into its component
parts. To do this, you’ll have to read extensively, think deeply about the problem
and potential solutions to it, and organize your thoughts coherently (probably
using a conceptual framework -- more on that below). You’ll need to take a
balanced look at the evidence when reaching policy conclusions. You should draw
on relevant theoretical and empirical studies to substantiate your policy position
and to show a strong and nuanced understanding of the topic.
TOPIC SELECTION
I’ve given you a choice of four topics at the end of this document (see pages 7-9).
You can pick any one of these. Alternatively, you can come up with your own
topic, as long as it’s of significant policy and academic relevance. If you decide to
choose your own topic, please run it by me before you get started with the
assignment (by the end of week 8 at the latest).
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For this assignment, I strongly recommend you focus on a policy issue in a
particular country (or, in some cases, a region). This will make it easier to keep
your analysis focused (i.e., adopt a national perspective) and nuanced, and you’ll
be able to direct your policy recommendations to national decision-makers.
However, there may be exceptions (e.g., global solutions to the lack of antibiotic
drug development) so feel free to discuss with me if you want to consider a topic
where it makes sense to widen the geographic scope.