The data revolution promises to transform our understanding of health and deliver new insights into the development of therapies and delivery of health care. Unlocking this potential requires a similar revolution in data analytic skills that combines new and emerging statistical skills with advanced scientific and critical reasoning. Our course provides the professional and technical skills training to support the development of a health research career in your chosen area.
Course benefits
- The UKÕs only postgraduate course specialising onÊcausal inference for Ôreal world dataÕ
- Expert training in how to overcome pitfalls and malpractices of Ôreal worldÕ data analysis (unique for postgraduate taught programmes world-wide)
- State-of-the-art training inÊmodelling for prediction and causal inferenceÊ(unique for UK postgraduate taught programmes)
- Extensive access to routine health and medical dataÊmaintained within Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA)
- Novel and clinically-relevant project opportunities,Êsupervised by research leaders, and leading to scientific manuscripts suitable for peer-reviewed publication.
This unique MSc offers an exciting blend of core and optional content to provide a cutting-edge grounding in modern health data science while allowing you to specialise in a range of areas, such as clinical trials, machine learning, spatial analytics, and genetic epidemiology.
Our innovative Professional Skills for Health Data Analysts module will equip you with the skills and experience to work effectively in research, public health or health services research. It covers; ethics, academic writing for publication, consultancy, management and leadership skills.
The course will also provide you with strong foundations in the skills and knowledge of data analytics with relevance to health. We stretch you to acquire and implement advanced techniques through optional modules. These modules allow your learning to be tailored towards discipline-specific paths appropriate to your future career.
Full time MSc students will study modules totalling 180 credits over 12 months. If you study part time you will study fewer modules in each year.
