ENV 604a/MGT 631 () / 2025-2026

Public Health Entrepreneurship (Fall-1 Aug 27-Oct 10)

Credits: 1.5 Fall 2025: O, Two sections available see description, Evans 2230

This is not your usual start-up course. This is a course about how to be entrepreneurial in reducing health disparities and achieving public health goals. This includes both non-profit and for-profit entrepreneurship; and intrapreneurship, which means innovating within existing institutions (government agencies, non-profits, for-profits). We also focus heavily on extrapreneurship, which is the idea of innovating across the boundaries of multiple institutions. The course is centered on health equity, which means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires addressing obstacles to health such as poverty, racism, gender and other biases and their consequences; including disparities in power, livelihood, education, housing, food, safety, and health care services. We refer to these as drivers of health. Across careers and professions, our work influences and is influenced by one or more drivers of health. In this case-based course, we examine a wide spectrum of public health entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (PHEI) cases ranging from collective action in a non-profit setting to digital start-ups in a venture-backed setting. This course brings together students from the Schools of Management, Public Health, Environment, Global Affairs, Divinity, Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and undergraduates. There are no prerequisites, all are welcome.

Follows School of Management Calendar
Two sections available:
M/W 8:30-9:50
M/W 10:10-11:30