MS in Health Informatics

The Health Informatics Masters Degree program provides a comprehensive curriculum to prepare students for careers in research, teaching, and information management in the healthcare computing industry, within healthcare organizations, and academia. The program offers advanced training in biomedical and health informatics aligned with the local and national community's current skills, environments, and health needs for students to develop as independent and applied professionals for broad future careers.

The Masters's degree requirements include a core intensive curriculum and a mandatory research project and thesis to produce work published in peer-reviewed journals. Possibilities for project foci include research in areas such as digital and consumer health, clinical decision support and data sciences in health, systems architecture in clinical health IT, patient privacy and security, and data standardization, sharing, and connectivity.

The UC Davis School of Medicine is among the nation’s leading medical schools, one that is committed to providing the best in student-centered educational experiences. Our school encompasses a diverse group of medical and graduate students guided by faculty dedicated to improving lives and transforming health for all.

As part of UC Davis Health, the School of Medicine helps train the nation’s health care workforce and prepare them to become future leaders in health for our communities.