I love the mentality and supportive atmosphere at YSPH. The confidence and the passion from faculty members and students were inspiring and made me want to join this big Y family.
I love the mentality and supportive atmosphere at YSPH. The confidence and the passion from faculty members and students were inspiring and made me want to join this big Y family.
The science of health informatics drives innovation-defining future approaches to information and knowledge management in biomedical research, clinical care, and public health. Health informatics (HI) comprises applied research and the practice of informatics across clinical and public health domains. Informatics researchers develop, introduce, and evaluate new biomedically motivated methods in areas as diverse as data mining, natural language or text processing, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, decision support, databases and algorithms for analyzing large amounts of data generated in public health, clinical research and genomics/proteomics.
The MS degree will provide well-rounded training in Health Informatics, with a balance of core courses from such areas as information sciences, clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, consumer health and population health informatics, data science and more broadly health policy, social and behavioral science, biostatistics and epidemiology. The length of study for the MS in HI is two academic years. First-year courses survey the field; the typical second-year courses are more technical and put greater emphasis on mastering the skills in health informatics. The degree also requires a capstone project in the second year.
Applicants should typically have an undergraduate degree with a focus in health, computer science or mathematics/statistics. Students with a master’s degree or other related degrees may be allowed to enroll in additional elective courses in lieu of required courses, if they can demonstrate prior proficiency in required courses.
The length of study for the MS in Health Informatics is two years. Part-time enrollment is not an option.
This program does not require General GRE scores.
For more information and to apply to the MS program, visit the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website. Please choose "Public Health" as the program. Then select Health Informatics as the concentration. Do not try to use SOPHAS.
*Students entering the program with an MPH or relevant graduate degree may be exempt from this requirement.
rev. 09.08.22