Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.96 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.92 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
Spring 2027
Principles of Population Health Sciences
Introduction to Principles of Population Health Sciences covering determinants of health, measurement, economic concepts, and ethical/managerial issues.
offering recorded1–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jessica Cao
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.96 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.92 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Demonstrate basic understanding and application of principles of Population Health Sciences in characterizing the multiple determinants of health and the optimal allocation of resources across those determinants for the improvement of health and reduction of disparities
Demonstrate basic understanding and application, at a basic level, of the principles of microeconomic theory relating to human and institutional decisions in the allocation of scarce resources for the production of health at individual, system and population levels
Demonstrate basic understanding of the role of socioeconomic status, behavior, and community on the production of health at individual and population levels
Demonstrate basic understanding of the historical and current financing and provision of health care services in the United States and its shaping by the political and policy processes
Demonstrate basic understanding and application of the principles of health measurement and its role in the design of health services, policy, intervention and evaluation
Demonstrate basic understanding of policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
594594 letter grades
A72.2%72.2%
AB17.5%17.5%
B8.1%8.1%
BC2.2%2.2%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
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- Graduate/professional standing
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- Graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
JESSICA CAO is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 002 | Online Only | 0 / 25 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.96 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.92 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).
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Topics
- Multiple determinants of health: medical care, socioeconomic status, physical environment, individual behavior, and interactions
- Definition and measurement of population health
- Economic concepts in population health
- Ethical and managerial issues in population health improvement
- Historical and current financing and provision of US health care services and political/policy influences
Skills
- Characterize multiple determinants of health and allocate resources to improve health and reduce disparities
- Apply microeconomic theory to resource allocation for health production
- Apply principles of health measurement to design health services, policy, interventions, and evaluations
- Understand policy and program evaluation and its role in research dissemination
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A88.9%88.9%
AB5.6%5.6%
B5.6%5.6%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Through Spring 2026
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Principles of Population Health Sciences
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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