Program Overview

Gain an in-demand skill set to design, implement and manage digital health solutions that meet the evolving healthcare needs of individuals and communities with La Trobe's Master of Digital Health.

Advance your knowledge in new and emerging areas of digital health, including health analytics, virtual care, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), websites, apps and social media. Explore these technologies and their applications by examining benefits, risks and their ethical and legal implications. Tailor your degree to your career goals with a range of practical specialisations and electives, from data analytics, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) to management, strategy, policy and opportunities to apply your learning by working on real-world digital health solutions with industry.

By completing La Trobe's Master of Digital Health, you will:

• Embrace a design-thinking mindset, using data-driven, human-centered and experience-based approaches to solutions
• Gain an understanding of big data health analytics and explore how it can be applied to real-world applications
• Discover powerful tools to effectively communicate health information to different audiences in the digital age
• Assess organisational preparedness for digital transformation and know how to plan and conduct successful digital transformation programs
• Graduate ready to work at the forefront of a progressive and secure healthcare system.

Specialisation: Public Health

Help promote and protect the health of communities and populations.

Explore complex issues such as disease prevention, health promotion, health policy development and the social determinants of health. Fit study around your life with the choice to study online, in-person through evening classes, or a mix of both. Choose from a range of subjects aligned to your career goals, including public health responses to emergencies and disasters, designing and implementing health policy, and how differences in culture and social factors impacts public health.