The COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives in fundamental and enduring ways, impacting not only our health but also the economy, culture, and politics. In this course, you will examine health inequalities and outcomes across different groups in the United States, utilizing the policies and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as your framework. You will explore the impact of COVID-19 in such areas as employment, healthcare, energy use, patterns of movement, and consumer spending, and you will consider how policies implemented during the pandemic affected these variables for different groups in disparate ways. You will also examine remote data as well as a variety of spatial tools to help visualize the effect of pandemic-related policies.

By leveraging data, you will investigate how policies implemented during the pandemic affected health inequalities and outcomes for different groups in disparate ways across the United States, utilizing the policies and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as your framework.

You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:

• Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
• Impact of Racial-Ethnic Segregation on Education and Neighborhood Inequality