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 Workforce Development 

With the generation of tremendous amounts of data and the expansion of technology and innovations, informatics has become an integral part of our lives, incorporating health sciences, bioengineering, computer science, information science, cognitive science, and many more. The convergence of all these disciplines has one primary goal: to improve people’s health and wellbeing and pave the road towards the fulfillment of societal needs by training interprofessionally individuals from various fields (i.e., nursing, engineering, business, public health, social work, psychology, medicine, dentistry, allied health, pharmacy, etc.).

These educational offerings are being developed in partnership with professional organizations and industry to ensure that we equip the current and future workforce with the skills needed for the 21 st Century.

Here are some examples:

The Center for Innovation in Health Informatics (CIHI) offers education in the following areas:

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Health Informatics Through an Interprofessional and Global Lens

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Biomedical Informatics

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Public Health Informatics

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Biotechnology