Overview

Working in health care changes rapidly. Besides good doctors and excellent lab researchers we need people who understand health care and are capable of changing the system. Population Health Management delivers those professionals.

Are you looking for more than being a doctor or researcher? Today's health care system faces many challenges: ageing populations, rising health care costs, fragmented health care supply and advancing medical technologies and IT systems. Health care professionals will require new competences to meet these challenges in the current health care system. Population Health Management aims at tackling these challenges in a broad sense and has emerged as an important strategy for health care worldwide.

The two year programme combines knowledge insights from epidemiology, data analysis in healthcare, medicine, public administration and behavioral sciences into a globally unique interdisciplinary program. Students with various backgrounds work together through a combination of both online- and intensive on-campus education.

At the end of the programme, you will be prepared to work as an interdisciplinary academic trusted partner. You will be equipped to transform healthcare, from treating disease to actually promoting health. This is requested in a wide range of healthcare organizations and businesses and government.

What you will learn

As a PHM expert you have the skills to look and act across domains in solving and preventing complex healthcare issues. The programme is competence-oriented, PHM expertise lies at the core of the competences:

PHM exprtise

Reason from the need and necessity of health challenges in the population, thinking and acting in a holistic, innovative, sustainable, transformative and proactive way and being able to communicate about complex health care issues with various professionals involved.

Academic skills

Execute and combine different scientific methodologies (mixed methods) in a responsible way in order to innovate the medical professional field.

Data-driven thinking and acting

Gather, integrate, edit, interpret and report qualitative as well as quantitative data from the medical and social domain relevant for the various stakeholders.

Eclectic thinking and acting

Approach and analyse health care issues from different perspectives, as well as argue and select the best solutions.

Deliberative governance thinking and acting

Weigh pros and cons on different organisational levels in order to support an effective decision making structure.

Transformative skills

Continuously adapt professionally (lifelong learning) to changing circumstances and to think and act proactively from a technological, societal and medical perspective in an ever-changing, complex professional and organisational context.

Career prospects

After graduation, you will have a wide range of career opportunities, depending on your specialization. You may work in strategic staff positions or as a data scientist in health and social care organisations, insurance companies, and suppliers in the healthcare sector. Opportunities are also available in policy organisations at the international, national, and local levels, as well as in academic and research institutes.

You will be the advisor between various perspectives with a clear vision on future sustainable health care.

Examples of jobs

• Policy maker at the ministry of Health
• Researcher/policy officer at RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment)
• Prevention specialist at big health insurance company
• Self employed adviser on the structure of health organizations
• Researcher/policy at the GGD
• Researcher at the LUMC
• Healthcare purchaser at a healthcare insurance company
• PhD and teacher for Population Health Management

Accreditation

Accredited by NVAO, the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders.