Public Health Informatics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health Email Format
Higher EducationMinnesota, United States10001+ Employees
An MPH in Public Health Informatics trains you to design, develop, and manage public health information systems to more efficiently and effectively improve population health. A public health informatician is a professional who works in either practice, research, or academia and whose primary work function is to use informatics to improve population health. These professionals provide expertise in implementing informatics in public and population health organizations, institutions, and processes. Public health professionals having a MPH or certificate in PHI are in high demand and are predicted to remain in high demand. The increasing use of ePublicHealth and eHealth has created job opportunities from the federal to the local level. Many health systems also need individuals skilled in both health and systems engineering to assist with their electronic health records and other health IT.