Public Policy Analysis and Synthesis is a graduate seminar that equips students to make sense of complex health and welfare challenges—and to turn that understanding into actionable policy advice. The course introduces the foundations of public policy and then develops the practical craft of policy analysis: how policies are framed and decided, which instruments governments use, how to compare and interpret different analytic approaches, and how to assess policy outcomes, impacts, and pathways for policy learning, transfer, and innovation. Learning is deliberately grounded in the real policy world through field visits and dialogue with frontline actors—including the Legislative Yuan and the Taiwanese Family Caregivers Association—so that students can see how evidence, institutions, negotiation, and advocacy interact in practice. A key feature of the course is that students produce a concise, evidence-informed policy brief, practising how to synthesise research and stakeholder perspectives into clear options and recommendations for decision-makers.