Public Health and Informatics
Dates & Learning Mode
Key Dates
Applications Now Open (Deadline Feb 15, 2026)
Duration
Full Time / Part Time
Learning mode
Online
The purpose of this programme is to build capacity among professionals in health, information and related disciplines by providing the training in public health and informatics relevant to the 21st century workforce.
Programme Overview
The MSc in Public Health and Informatics prepares professionals to lead in the evolving digital health landscape. Designed in response to global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the surrounding 'infodemic,' the programme integrates core public health principles with informatics and data science to foster better decision-making, policy development, and health system strengthening.
Students will master the strategic use of information technology including hardware, software, and programming for collecting, processing, storing, and applying health data to inform policy, service design, and delivery. The curriculum emphasizes data-driven approaches, digital tools, ethical frameworks, and analytics-based project implementation to tackle misinformation and contribute to sustainable development. Graduates will be equipped with the critical thinking and strategic decision-making skills necessary to lead the digitization of the health sector and support achievement of the UN 2030 agenda.
Programme Levels
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Graduate Certificate
4 core courses (12 credits)
Total: 12 creditsUS$3,500
16 in-course weeks full-time, 32 in-course weeks part-time -
Graduate Diploma
5 core courses (15 credits); 2 electives (6 credits)
Total: 21 creditsUS$7,500
32 in-course weeks full-time, 56 in-course weeks part-time -
Masters
6 core courses (18 credits); 4 electives (12 credits); 1 project (6 credits)
Total: 36 creditsUS$10,000
56 in-course weeks full-time, 96 in-course weeks part-time
Programme Goals
- Build human resource capacity, globally, and regionally, in areas that require highly trained personnel to advance the digital transformation of public health and support achievement of the UN 2030 agenda.
- Facilitate the acquisition of advanced knowledge and, skills, and to develop attitudes required to address the increasing demand for information technology (IT) expertise within the global health system workforce in both the private and public sectors
- Contribute to the development of graduates who are conversant with and responsive in their management of the dynamic demands of modern health systems, which increasingly rely upon robust collection, processing, storage and application of health data to inform health policy, service design and delivery, and to guide decision-making.
Programme Objectives
- Equip officials from the ministries of health, other entities in the public health sector, and non-health professionals with an interest in public health and IT, with the necessary skills required to strengthen health policies and decision-making at the regional and global level through the strategic application of knowledge derived from critical analysis of the relevant theories
- Expose participants to the strategic requirements of leading modern health system organisations at the local, regional, and international levels
- Equip participants with the strategic decision-making capabilities necessary for leadership in the dynamic 21st century healthcare system
- Guide participants in the integration of principles of critical analysis, equity, ethics, and legal accountability in the advance toward achieving the UN 2030 agenda.
