Temple University’s Master of Science in Health Informatics program prepares you to design and manage health data systems in order to improve healthcare delivery, patient care and population health outcomes.

You’ll learn to implement health technology in a wide range of settings such as hospitals, managed and ambulatory care, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and public health organizations.

Our flexible 36-credit program is offered on campus or fully online. Earn your degree at a pace that’s right for you—with part-time and full-time options, coursework can be completed in as little as two years on a part-time basis.

No GRE is required to apply.

For international students: This program is STEM Designated and may help students qualify for a STEM OPT Extension (a two-year extension of post-completion OPT for students who earned a STEM degree in the U.S.).

Growing up, Kemi Shoyinka was drawn to healthcare and fascinated by computer technology. Now, working as a pharmacist and pursuing a master's degree in health informatics at Temple’s College of Public Health, she is pulling those interests together.

“In the last ten years, it's been so interesting to see how information technology is being used in healthcare,” she says. “As I continue to practice as a pharmacist, my interest in computers has grown, and I’m coming to see how data can really impact the health of populations.”

Shoyinka got her first experience with healthcare by joining a Red Cross club during elementary school in her home country of Nigeria. “That was my first introduction to the healthcare system. How to help in an emergency, how to improvise. I was drawn to being part of a healthcare team,” she says.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in Nigeria, then her doctorate in pharmacy in 2013 from the University of Florida. Along the way she spent time in England as well as southern New Jersey, at a pharmacy in Camden, where she learned about Temple.

“I always admired Temple’s level of inclusion and diversity and their role in the community,” she says. “We saw some of the effort they put into communities in Philadelphia and Camden, their public health efforts to reach the underserved and minorities. So when I came back to the area, I decided I was going to do a health informatics degree at Temple.”

Shoyinka has been taking health informatics classes while working at a specialty pharmacy that supplies medication for the hepatitis C- and HIV-positive populations of City of Philadelphia prisons. 

“For the future, I've been looking at health informatics-related jobs, in managed care and the pharma industry,” she says. “Maybe as a clinical research officer, to collect data and use that information to make decisions, or help the investigators in their research in different populations. I'm looking to get my feet wet in the field and leverage all the knowledge I've acquired.”