2. Welcome & Introductions Program Overview Admissions & Funding DLHS NIB Tour 2

3. Program Overview How do we catalyze, sustain, and continually advance a massive socio-technical transformation of a system touching everyone's life and health and encompassing over one- sixth of a nation's economy?

4. Program Overview This challenge involves knowledge and skills from many disciplines to come together and be able to effectively and efficiently communicate and collaborate with one another. It will require technology and people, and will affect physical systems, information systems, and social systems.

5. Program Overview Program Objectives  Develop leaders and researchers in Learning Health Systems  Educate problem solvers who can conceptualize complex challenges in health care organization and deliver and apply innovative solutions  Expand our understanding of how health infrastructures apply to different levels of scale  Apply information and implementation sciences to understand and analyze complex health systems

6. Infrastructure 6 Integrated technologies, policies, and patterns of human behavior in support a broad range of valued activities in a given domain of human endeavor Dynamic and adaptable to quantitative and qualitative demands Drive changes in policies, and advancements in the technologies Health care delivery as an information and human intensive domain Health infrastructures as the creation, curation, and application of information at multiple levels of refinement ranging from raw data to actionable knowledge The goal of health infrastructures is to improve the health of individuals and populations

7. Promote improvement through simultaneous execution of multiple learning cycles Each cycle focused on a specific health problem or improvement goal Sustainable at a large scale, where hundreds and perhaps thousands of these cycles will be ongoing simultaneously Enabled by a socio-technical infrastructure platform 7 Learning Systems

8. HILS Curriculum 8 Joint and equal emphasis on both the data and information sciences and social sciences related to behavior change and continuous improvement in health Research methods courses, courses in the components of the learning cycle, courses in health infrastructures, as well as at least one cognate and one elective course

9. Fall Year 1 MS + PhD Winter Year 1 MS + PhD Summer Year 1 MS + PhD Fall Year 2 MS + PhD En d o f M S p r o g r a m Winter Year 2 PhD only Research Methods for Learning Systems 1 Advanced/ Applied Research Methods Course Cognate Analysis / Statistics Course Health Infrastructures Pro Seminar 1 Implementation Science in Health 1 Implementation Project Implementation Science in Health 2 Health Infrastructures Pro Seminar 2 Data Science in Health Knowledge Representation & Management in Health Ethics & Policy Issues for Learning Health Systems Elective 9 Year Two Fall: Qualifying Exam Winter: Coursework Summer: Dissertation Proposal Examination, Advance to Candidacy Years Three + Examination, Advance to Candidacy Dissertation Research, Defense Completion of PhD HILS Curriculum

10. Outcomes U.S. News & World Report in 2009 identified the field of health informatics as “Ahead of the Curve Cutting ‐ Edge Careers” HILS pushes beyond this cutting edge, creating a science integrating multiple disciplines Scholars conversant in health care policy, data sciences, learning and implementation sciences, health informatics, and complex systems 10

11. PhD & MS Admissions Via the Rackham Graduate School Online application Application Fee Academic Statement of Purpose Personal Statement Three letters of Recommendation GRE Scores International English proficiency exam results Immigrant/Non-immigrant status documentation Current Rackham degree students – Add a Degree 11

12. PhD & MS Admissions PhD priority application deadline: March 1 MS: May 1 Academic Statement of Purpose Indicate potential advisors and research area(s) Specific format and questions on HILS website Letters of Recommendation Provide your recommender a copy of your statement and HILS program description Reviews and Interviews PhD Admission Decisions by April 1 MS rolling decisions 12

13. PhD Funding Four years guaranteed Full tuition, stipend, GradCare medical insurance One summer of departmental support External funding Rackham resources Graduate Student Research Assistants Fellowships / Learning Health Fellows 13

14. Q & A