This is an intense introductory graduate-level course in public health policy. This course will introduce students to the structure of the Canadian health system and the scope of and types of literatures that make up public health policy discourse. Students will learn concepts of underlying oppression in public health policies and critical anti-racist approaches to public health policy. Students will also develop critical reading skills in this field and understand the socio-political dimensions of public health policy and the major theoretical frameworks used to analyze policy change.