CBH launches new Master's programme – Data-driven health
In autumn 2025, a new Master's programme in Data-Driven Health will start at Campus Flemingsberg in the main field of technology and health.
“We have been working for several years to develop this master's programme,” says Sebastiaan Meijer, professor, deputy head of school and head of the Department of Health Informatics and Logistics.
The programme is intended to provide both breadth and depth in the understanding of how data can be used to change and streamline healthcare and thus improve people's health. The focus is on using health data from healthcare, self-produced data, community data and health data from other sources in the analysis.
“When we started involving computer engineering students in our research projects, we quickly identified that a master's programme in data-driven health was missing from KTH's offerings. This is a subject that is growing internationally and is of great importance to society," says Sebastiaan Meijer.
In addition to some "traditional" courses mainly in computing and machine learning, to give students the technical skills, courses in health systems and systems biology are included to give the medical and scientific breadth, and courses on health care organisation.
“Our approach is to work with real cases during the programme. It can be anything from analysing data on different diseases to looking at mental health in young people. To do that, you need to link data from different sources,” says Reine Bergström, Lecturer at the Department of Health Informatics and Logistics.
The hope is to also attract international students to the programme. Although the focus is on European conditions, the health perspective is global.
Text: Åsa Karsberg