The M.S. in Health Outcomes and Data Analytics program combines the Data Science Graduate Certificate and Medication Outcomes Graduate Certificate to provide professionals with the knowledge to make data-driven decisions and gain insights to improve patients’ lives.
In order to learn how to successfully analyze complex data to determine the outcomes of pharmaceutical and healthcare interventions, the program draws upon the fields of:
- Epidemiology
- Computer science
- Ethics
- Mathematics
- Pharmacy
- Quality improvement
- Statistics
Through this program, professionals will obtain the skills to understand the development of methods to collect, record, store, analyze, and interpret data effectively and extract useful information aimed at detecting patterns, trends, and relationships that inform healthcare decision-making
Careers
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, both data scientists and medical/health services managers are among the top 30 fastest growing occupations between 2020 and 2030. There is an increasing amount of opportunities at the intersection of health and data across the country.
Some of these positions include:
- Medical and Health Services Manager
- Operations Research Analyst
- Data Scientist