MASTER IN :
APPLIED ICT IN PUBLIC HEALTH
MSc in Applied ICT in Public Health
At the world's most consequential intersection: where digital technology meets human health. A pioneering program creating professionals who understand epidemiology and health systems as deeply as databases and networks — and who can deploy technology to save lives at population scale.
Program objectives
The curriculum grounds you in the core sciences of public health — fundamental theories, epidemiology, healthcare systems, and infectious, communicable and non-communicable diseases — then equips you with the digital instruments transforming them: health management information systems and telemedicine, e-reproductive, maternal and child health, e-global health, data mining in public health, and the modelling and simulation of disease. Courses in health project management, e-healthcare management, the anthropology of health, and quantitative and qualitative research analysis complete a truly interdisciplinary preparation.
Learning outcomes
Design and manage health information systems
The backbone of any functioning health service.
Deploy telemedicine to remote communities
Where the distance to a clinic is the diagnosis.
Mine health data to detect outbreaks
And target interventions where they change outcomes.
Model epidemics to guide policy
Simulation that ministries can act on.
Manage health-technology projects
From proposal through to evaluation.
Work across disciplines
An internship in a real health organisation, plus a network.
Integration in society
Digital health is rewriting what is possible in medicine and public health — and nowhere more dramatically than in Africa, where telemedicine already reaches 52% more rural patients and mobile health could serve 650 million people. Health informaticians close the distance between clinics and communities, give ministries real-time epidemic intelligence, and stretch scarce health budgets further. Your work will directly advance universal health coverage, maternal and child survival, and epidemic preparedness.
Combine compassion with computation — and build the systems that heal nations.
Employment opportunities and careers
The digital health market is expanding fast — projected to grow from roughly $492 billion in 2026 to over $2.3 trillion by 2034 at a 21.6% annual rate, with Africa's own market expanding rapidly. Employment of health services managers, including health informatics specialists, is projected to grow 28% — among the fastest of any profession. Employers include ministries of health, hospitals, NGOs, WHO and UN agencies, health-tech startups and research institutes.
Step into the fastest-growing frontier of global health
Offered online or onsite, in English or French. Clinicians, IT professionals and public health workers alike are welcome.