Program Overview

Programs

The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) offers various programs for students. These include:

• Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research
• Health Administration
• Health Professions Education Research
• Health Systems Leadership and Innovation
• Health Systems Research
• Master of Health Informatics
• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

MHI2025Y Course

The MHI2025Y course, Strategic Leadership for Digitally Enabled Health System Transformation, is an advanced leadership course designed for mid to late career learners. This course is tailored for students considering senior leadership roles in Canada's digital health system.

Course Details

• The course is open to students from various University of Toronto programs, including IHPME's Executive Master of Health Informatics (EMHI), Health Systems Leadership and Innovation (HSLI), and Health Administration (MHSc) programs, as well as the Rotman School of Management Health MBA Programs and the PharmD programs.
• The course is designed to be fully immersive, allowing enrolled students to work in collaborative groups to develop and implement real-world health system transformation projects that are digitally enabled.
• Groups are supervised by senior Canadian digital health executives, who serve as project mentors, focusing on areas such as the use of digital tools in care integration, AI for health system transformation, and the use of virtual care in service delivery.

Student Experience

• Students are given tangible experience that closely mirrors how leadership is practiced in health systems, enriched by dynamic interdisciplinary collaboration.
• The course allows students to immediately apply concepts about advanced leadership to actual digitally enabled transformation projects in the Canadian healthcare system.
• Student feedback has been outstanding, with students appreciating the opportunity to work on real-world projects and develop valuable skills in digital health leadership.

Projects

• There are currently five student-led projects underway, led by the inaugural cohort of graduate students from health-related programs across the University of Toronto.
• These projects span topics of digital transformation, data governance, and system-level improvements in healthcare across Canada.
• The projects are sponsored by public health system sponsors from across Canada.

Future Plans

• Applications from public and private sponsored organizations are open for digitally enabled transformation projects beginning May 2026.
• The next cycle of the course will consist of five new transformation projects that drive meaningful change in care systems at provincial, regional, or sub-regional levels, with a focus on digitally enabled care.
• Interested graduate student applicants can submit applications for enrollment in 2026.