Overview
Health sciences informatics research involves investigating a range of topics: innovations in the health sciences (e.g., clinical, nursing, public health, and librarianship); understanding information needs; designing and creating information technologies; deploying information solutions; and evaluating information management systems. With the ubiquitous deployment of EHRs and other health information systems in the 2020's, health sciences informatics research also encompasses the application and evaluation of analytic platforms for precision medicine and population health.
The approach at Johns Hopkins is interdisciplinary. Although housed in the School of Medicine, the training program partners with all schools in the health sciences and throughout Hopkins. During rotations and thesis work, MSc Research students will have the opportunity to learn about and/or research topics like the following:
- Clinical Decision Support
- Global Health Informatics
- Health Information Exchange (HIE)
- Human Computer Interaction
- Multi-Center Real World Data
- Patient Quality & Safety
- Population Health Analytics
- Precision Medicine Analytics
- Standard Terminologies
- Telemedicine
- Translational Bioinformatics
The MSc Research program invites applicants from a range of disciplines including public health, clinical care, nursing, and biology, as well as from cognate fields such as computer, library, and information sciences.

