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Career Success
Helping You Navigate Your Professional Journey
The health informatics and analytics field is continuously evolving, and a successful career requires continual upskilling, reskilling, and lifelong learning. As a student in the Tufts online master’s program, you will have access to Career Success—a team of coaches who can help you connect your strengths and experiences to your career goals and prepare for ongoing professional growth.
Career Planning Support
Our innovative career planning resources include digital educational programming and one-on-one coaching. The Career Success team will help you define your professional preferences, areas of expertise, and personal motivations—and use those insights to design your personalized career development plan.
Throughout your time in the program, we will help you enhance your marketability, employability, and promotability.
Keeping Your Career in Focus
The Career Success team provides personalized support throughout the student experience — during the application process, student onboarding, academic courses, field experience, immersions, and pre-graduation.
Improve Communities as a Health Data Professional
Request information today. We'll pair you with a dedicated admissions counselor who can share career planning resources and help you work toward your professional goals.
Request InformationFour Forms of Career Support
The Career Course
Gain insight into career planning strategies in interactive, self-paced modules designed for Tufts online MPH students and recent graduates.
Career Materials Review
Get expert feedback to help you fine-tune your resume/CV, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, and digital portfolio.
Personal Career Coaching
Benefit from one-on-one guidance as you develop your professional goals and prepare for your job search.
Virtual Career Workshops
Participate in virtual networking and industry information sessions with professionals and peers.
Careers in Health Informatics and Health Analytics
The online Master of Science in Health Informatics & Analytics program at Tufts University School of Medicine prepares health care, public health, data, and computer science professionals with the knowledge and practical skills they need to improve the overall health of individuals and communities using health information technology (HIT).
Health informatics and analytics professionals work at various types of health organizations, including:

Healthcare Providers

Public Health Agencies

Clinical Research Organizations
Health Informatics Career Outlook
If you specialize in health informatics, you will learn how to guide the selection, implementation, maintenance, utilization, and development of technology that improves health care for patients and providers.
Health informatics professionals may work as:
- Health care analysts
- Health services managers
- Lead informaticians
Learn more about the promising outlook for health informatics careers.
Health Analytics Career Outlook
If you specialize in health analytics, you will learn how to use data to improve health outcomes for individuals, communities, and organizations.
Health analytics professionals may work as:
- Population health analysts
- Research and evaluation specialists
- Health care data management advisers
Learn how health analytics career paths can lead to professional success.
Plan for Your Future in HIT
Learn how Tufts Public Health Online is helping students develop professionally and discover new opportunities at every stage of the career planning cycle.
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