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Insigne Health is a for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members’ focus from “sickness” to “well-being” it could increase the overall health of its insured…

Three months into her job as secretary of health for Washington State in 1999-a position which had been vacant for nearly a year following the previous secretary’s resignation-Mary Selecky read a newspaper story that the state’s largest and…

The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, unleashed a 30-foot tsunami along Japan’s Pacific Coast that damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear complex. The crippled reactors leaked radiation into the sea…

Guidance on designing a course to facilitate student learning, from Professor Nancy Kane, covering topics including: Is your course description clear and engaging? Does your syllabus provide a framework for the course that is logical and supported by…

A collection of cases written by MPH students of the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health at Western University, Canada. These casebooks–from 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018–may be copied and used free of charge without permission for…

This case focuses on the challenges of keeping a collective impact program—the Tackling Youth Substance Abuse (TYSA) program on Staten Island—focused and effective over time, a problem faced by many collaborative community-based efforts. The TYSA program…

This case describes the challenges facing Jon Moussally, the CEO of TraumaLink, a four-year-old social venture that provided trauma first aid to victims of traffic injuries in Bangladesh, a country that had some of the most dangerous highways in the…

“Leading discussion sections effectively requires a lot more listening than speaking, and the speaking done by the instructor comes, in large part, through questions.”

“If you’re like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying and time-consuming. In The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition, William Ellet presents a potent new approach for efficiently analyzing, discussing, and…