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Education programs and certificates

Entity	Country	BI?	CLI?	DMII?	HI?	MI?	NI?	Bach/Assoc?	Mast/PGD?	Doc?	Int/Res/Fel?	Cert?	Details
A*STAR Singapore	China	Y								Y	Y		The Bioinformatics Institute at A*STAR (the Agency for Science, Technology and Research) is a computational biology research center, postgraduate training institute, and a Chinese resource center in bioinformatics. * Doctoral program in computational biology and bioinformatics * Internships * Scholarships and awards
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic	Czech Republic	Y								Y			The Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science is a part of the EuroMISE Centre (European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology) at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It acts as a research and educational facility. * Doctoral program in biomedical informatics
American Society for Clinical Pathology	United States		Y									Y	The American Society for Clinical Pathology offers the certification "Qualification in Laboratory Informatics," which tests an applicant on the "technical application of relevant laboratory informatics workflow."
American Society of Health Informatics Managers	United States				Y							Y	ASHIM offers four different types of health IT certifications: * List of health IT certifications
Arizona State University	United States	Y							Y	Y			The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University provides postgraduate education in the field of biomedical informatics. * Master's program in biomedical informatics * Doctoral program in biomedical informatics
Ashford University	United States				Y			Y					The College of Health, Human Services, and Science offers the following health informatics programs: * Bachelor of Arts in health informatics (online)
Asian Institute of Public Health	India				Y							Y	The Center for Public Health Informatics "programs focus on short term training, workshops, certificate and diploma in public health informatics at graduate and post graduate levels": * Post-graduate diploma and skill development programs in public health informatics
Australian National University	Australia										Y		The Centre for Bioinformation Science, Institute for Advanced Studies may have postgraduate training and positions available in bioinformatics, but it's not clear what they are. The center leaves a contact e-mail for more information.
BC Cancer Agency	Canada	Y							Y	Y			The Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre offers: * Masters and doctorate programs in bioinformatics * Bioinformatics scholarship and training program
Boston University	United States				Y				Y			Y	Boston University's Metropolitan College offers several certificates and degrees in health informatics. The Laboratory for Biocomputing and Informatics, Structural Bioinformatics Lab, and Translational Science Institute may also be a source of post-graduate training. * Masters program and graduate certificates in health informatics * Master's program in health informatics (online version)
Cardiff University	United Kingdom (Wales)				Y				Y	Y			The Health Informatics Research Community provides information about health informatics research and teaching activities at Cardiff University. * Master's and doctorate programs in informatics
Catholic University of America	United States				Y				Y				The Health Information Technology Program, School of Library and Information Science offers a master's degree with a focus on health information technology.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	United States				Y						Y		The CDC offers a two-year fellowship in public health informatics.
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany	Y								Y			The Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Institute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics works in conjunction with the International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing to offer a doctorate program in bioinformatics.
Charles University in Prague	Czechoslovakia	Y			Y	Y		Y	Y				The Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Institute of Biophysics and Informatics, First Faculty of Medicine offers a bachelor's and master's program in medical technology and health technology and informatics respectively.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute	United States				Y							Y	The Center for Biomedical Informatics offers a non-accredited certificate in informatics and a "Post-Baccalaureate Health Informatics Certificate," which is applicable towards Temple University's master's program in health informatics. The center also offers a residency elective in health informatics.
City University London	United Kingdom (England)				Y				Y				The Centre for Health Informatics, School of Informatics offers a master's program in health informatics.
Claremont Graduate University	United States				Y				Y	Y			The School of Information Systems and Technology offers both a master's and doctorate program in information systems and technology, with a concentration in "Health Informatics Management" among other options. The affiliated Kay Center for E-Health Research may also offer post-doctoral research opportunities.
College of St. Scholastica	United States				Y			Y	Y				The Department of Health Informatics and Information Management, School of Health Sciences offers: * Bachelor's program in health information management * Master's program in health information management
Columbia University	United States	Y			Y				Y	Y	Y	Y	The Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers a wide variety of education programs in bioinformatics and health informatics, including a master's, doctorate, fellowship, and certificate.
Community College of Baltimore County	United States				Y			Y					The School of Applied and Information Technology offers an associate degree in health informatics. (More info for 2013 program: here)
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology	Pakistan				Y				Y				The Health Informatics Department offers a master's program in health informatics.
Conestoga College	Canada				Y			Y					The School of Health & Life Sciences and Community Services offers a bachelor's program in health informatics management.
Curtin University	Australia				Y			Y	Y				The School of Public Health offers: * Bachelor's program in health information management * Master's program in health information management
Dalhousie University	Canada				Y				Y	Y			The Department of Health Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Medicine and Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine offer: * Master's program in health informatics * Interdisciplinary doctorate program in health informatics
Drexel University	United States				Y				Y				The College of Information Science and Technology offers a master's program in health informatics (online-only).
Duke University	United States				Y		Y		Y	Y		Y	The Duke Center for Health Informatics, Duke Translational Medicine Institute offers: * Master's program in "Management in Clinical Informatics" * Master's program in nursing informatics * Doctoral program in nursing and health informatics * Certificate program in health informatics
eHCF School of Medical Informatics	India					Y						Y	The school offers a distance-learning certificate program in medical informatics.
Emory University	United States				Y				Y				The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health offers a master's program in public health informatics.
Excelsior College	United States				Y							Y	The college offers a graduate certificate program in healthcare informatics.
Florida International University	United States				Y				Y				The Chapman Graduate School of Business offers a master's program in health informatics and management.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany					Y		Y	Y				The Department of Medical Informatics offers a bachelor's and master's program in medical informatics.
Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia				Y				Y				The Faculty of Medicine's SIMKES offers a master's program in health management information systems.
George Mason University	United States				Y			Y	Y				The College of Health and Human Services offers: * Undergraduate minor program in health information technology * Master's program in health informatics
Georgetown University	United States	Y							Y				The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology offers a master's program in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis on bioinformatics.
Georgia Institute of Technology	United States				Y				Y	Y			The College of Engineering offers a master's program in health systems, while the Health Systems Institute offers a doctorate program in health systems.
Grand Valley State University	United States	Y			Y	Y		Y	Y				The School of Computing and Information Systems offers: * Undergraduate minor program in health care information systems * Master's program in medical and bioinformatics
Harvard Medical School	United States	Y							Y	Y	Y		The school offers: * Master's program in biomedical informatics * Doctorate program in bioinformatics and integrative genomics A fellowship track in the Children's Hospital Informatics Program is also available.
Heidelberg University	Germany	Y						Y	Y				The Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Faculty of Biosciences offers: * Bachelor's program in molecular biotechnology with an emphasis on bioinformatics * Master's program in molecular biotechnology with an emphasis on bioinformatics
Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong/China				Y				Y				The university offers a master's program in health informatics.
Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires	Argentina					Y					Y		The hospital offers a residency program in medical informatics.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States					Y					Y		The Informatics Division of the school offers a fellowship program in medical informatics.
Indiana University Bloomington	United States	Y							Y	Y			The School of Informatics and Computing offers: * Master's program in bioinformatics * Doctorate program in informatics with a focus on bioinformatics
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	United States	Y	Y		Y		Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	The School of Informatics offers: * Bachelor's program in health information administration * Master's program in bioinformatics * Doctorate program in bioinformatics * Master's program in health informatics * Doctorate program in health informatics * Five certificate programs in clinical, public health, and health informatics and security The School of Nursing also offers certificate programs in nursing informatics.
Institute of Computer Science - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic	Czechoslovakia					Y				Y			The school offers a doctoral program in medical informatics.
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	United States	Y						Y	Y	Y			The university offers: * Bachelor's program in bioinformatics and computational biology * program in bioinformatics and computational biology
Jamia Hamdard	India	Y							Y				The school offers a master's program in bioinformatics.
Johns Hopkins University	United States				Y	Y	Y		Y	Y		Y	The Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine offers: * Master's program in "Applied Health Sciences Informatics" * Master's program in "Health Sciences Informatics - Research" * Doctorate program in "Health Sciences Informatics" * Certificate program in clinical informatics The School of Nursing also offers a post-graduate program in applied health informatics.
Karolinska Institutet	Sweden				Y				Y				The school offers a master's program in health informatics.
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University For Health Sciences	Saudi Arabia				Y			Y	Y				The College of Public Health and Health Informatics offers: * Bachelor's program in health informatics * Master's program of public health in health systems and quality management * Master's program in health informatics
La Trobe University	Australia				Y			Y	Y	Y			The Department of Health Information Management offers: * Bachelor's program in health sciences and information management * Master's program in health information management * Doctoral program in health information management
Liverpool John Moores University	United Kingdom (England)				Y				Y	Y			The Centre for Health and Social Care Informatics (CHaSCI) offers master's and doctoral programs in health and social care informatics.
Marine Biological Laboratory	United States	Y									Y		As part of a National Library of Medicine fellowship program, the school offers a biomedical informatics course.
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics	Germany	Y								Y			The International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing offers a doctoral program in biomedical informatics jointly with Freie Universität Berlin.
Medical College of Wisconsin	United States	Y				Y			Y				The MCW works jointly with Marquette University to offer a master's program in bioinformatics. The MCW also works jointly with the Milwaukee School of Engineering to offer a master's program in medical informatics. The Office of Clinical Informatics potentially may have postgraduate opportunities.
Medical University of Vienna	Austria					Y			Y	Y			The Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems (CeMSIIS) offers both a master's and doctoral program in medical informatics and "medical informatics, biostatistics and complex systems" respectively.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	United States	Y									Y		The Computational Biology Center offers postdoc opportunities in computational biology and bioinformatics.
Misericordia University	United States				Y			Y	Y			Y	The College of Health Sciences offers: * Minor in health care informatics * Executive master's program in health informatics * Certificate program in health care informatics
National Academy of Sciences	United States	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y			Y	Y		The Fellowship Office's Research Associateship Programs "promote[s] excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U.S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate, postdoctoral, and senior level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions." Some of those programs may pertain to fields of informatics.
Northeastern University	United States	Y			Y				Y	Y			The school offers: * Master's program in bioinformatics * Master's program in health informatics * Doctoral program in personal health informatics
Northern Kentucky University	United States				Y				Y				The College of Informatics offers a master's program in health informatics.
Nova Southeastern University	United States	Y			Y	Y	Y		Y			Y	The College of Osteopathic Medicine offers: * Master's program in biomedical informatics * Master's in nursing program with a focus on nursing informatics * Certificate program in medical informatics * Certificate program in public health informatics
Oregon Health & Science University	United States	Y	Y		Y				Y	Y	Y	Y	The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) offers: * Master's programs in "bioinformatics and computational biology," clinical informatics, and health information management * Doctoral programs in "bioinformatics and computational biology" and clinical informatics * Certificate programs in clinical informatics and health information management * Fellowship program in biomedical informatics
Purdue University	United States	Y									Y		The Kihara Bioinformatics Laboratory has post-doctoral and graduate research openings from time to time.
Queen's School of Computing	Canada	Y						Y					The school offers its Biomedical Computing Program for undergraduates.
Rasmussen College	United States				Y			Y					The School of Health Sciences offers: * Associate program in health information technology * Bachelor's program in health information management
Regenstrief Institute	United States	Y	Y			Y					Y		The Institute offers four different fellowship programs in biomedical, medical, and clinical informatics.
St. Louis University	United States				Y			Y					The Department of Health Informatics and Information Management, Doisy College of Health Sciences offers: * Bachelor's program in health information management * Master's program in health informatics
San Diego State University	United States	Y							Y				The Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BMIRC) offers a classical and professional science master's program in bioinformatics.
Simmons College	United States				Y				Y				The school offers a bachelor's program in health informatics.
Stanford University	United States	Y	Y					Y	Y	Y		Y	The university offers the following: * Bachelor's program in biomedical computation * Coterminal master's program in biomedical informatics * Professional master's program in biomedical informatics * Academic master's program in biomedical informatics * Doctoral program in biomedical informatics * Certificate programs in bioinformatics and clinical research informatics
SUNY Downstate Medical Center	United States					Y			Y				The Medical Center offers a master's program in medical informatics.
Swansea University	United Kingdom (Wales)				Y				Y				The university offers a master's program in health informatics.
Taipei Medical University	Taiwan	Y							Y	Y			The Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics offers: * Master's program in biomedical informatics * Doctoral program in biomedical informatics
Temple University	United States				Y			Y	Y			Y	The Department of Health Information Management, College of Health Professions and Social Work offers: * Pre-health information management program for freshmen and sophomores * Bachelor's program in health information management * Master's program in health informatics * Four certificate programs in health informatics
Trinity College Dublin	Ireland				Y				Y				The School of Computer Science and Statistics offers a master's program in health informatics.
Tufts University	United States				Y				Y				The School of Medicine offers a master's program in health communication.
UC Davis	United States				Y				Y			Y	The Health Informatics Program, School of Medicine offers: * Master's program in health informatics * Certificate program in health informatics
U.S. National Library of Medicine	United States	Y	Y		Y						Y		The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications offers numerous fellowship programs for pre- and post-doctoral students. The NLM also has coordinated with 20 universities across the U.S., creating university-based informatics research training programs in several fields.
UMIT	Austria	Y						Y	Y				The Institute for Bioinformatics and Translational Research offers a bachelor's and master's program in biomedical informatics.
University at Buffalo	United States	Y								Y			The university offers a doctoral program in "genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics."
University College London	United Kingdom (England)	Y							Y	Y		Y	The Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education offers: * Master's program in health informatics * Postgraduate diploma in health informatics * Postgraduate certificate in health informatics * Doctoral program in health informatics
University of Alabama - Birmingham	United States				Y				Y				The Graduate School offers a master's program in health informatics.
University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	Y				Y		Y	Y				The university offers: * Bachelor's program in medical informatics * Master's program in medical informatics * Master's program in systems biology and bioinformatics
University of Auckland	New Zealand				Y				Y			Y	The Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences offers: * Postgraduate diploma in health informatics * Postgraduate certificate in health informatics
University of Bologna	Italy	Y							Y				The Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences offers an international master's program in bioinformatics.
University of British Columbia	Canada	Y							Y	Y			The Graduate Program in Bioinformatics offers a master's or doctoral program in bioinformatics.
University of California - Irvine	United States	Y									Y		The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics offers pre- and postdoctoral programs in bioinformatics.
University of California - Los Angeles	United States	Y		Y				Y	Y	Y			The university offers: * Minor in bioinformatics * Master's program in medical imaging informatics * Doctoral program in bioinformatics * Doctoral program in medical imaging informatics
University of California - San Francisco	United States	Y	Y							Y			The university offers a doctoral program in either bioinformatics or clinical translational informatics.
University of California - Santa Cruz	United States	Y						Y	Y	Y			The university offers: * Minor in bioinformatics * Bachelor's program in bioinformatics * Master's program in bioinformatics * Doctoral program in bioinformatics
University of Central Florida	United States				Y			Y	Y				The Department of Health Management and Informatics, College of Health and Public Affairs offers: * Minor in "health informatics and information management" * Bachelor's program in "health informatics and information management" * Master's program in health care informatics
University of Colombo	Sri Lanka	Y							Y				The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine offers a master's program in biomedical informatics.
University of Colorado	United States				Y		Y		Y			Y	The College of Nursing offers: * Master's program in nursing informatics * Post-master's certificate program in health care informatics * Certificate program in health care informatics, primarily for those without a BS in nursing
University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom (Scotland)	Y							Y				The university offers a master's program in bioinformatics.
University of Freiburg	Germany	Y							Y				The university offers a master's program in "bioinformatics and systems biology."
University of Glasgow	United Kingdom (Scotland)	Y							Y				The university offers a master's program in bioinformatics, though it's on hiatus until the 2013–2014 session.
University of Hawaii	United States	Y							Y				The university offers a doctoral program in biomedical informatics.
University of Heidelberg	Germany					Y		Y	Y				The university offers: * Bachelor's program in medical informatics * Master's program in medical informatics
University of Helsinki	Finland	Y							Y				The Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science offers a master's program in bioinformatics.
University of Iowa	United States	Y			Y				Y	Y		Y	The university offers: * Master's program in health informatics * Doctoral program in health informatics * Certificate program in bioinformatics * Certificate program in health informatics
University of Kansas	United States				Y				Y				The Center for Health Informatics offers a master's program in health informatics.
University of Leeds	United Kingdom (England)				Y				Y				The Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine offers a master's program in health informatics.
University of Limerick	Ireland				Y				Y				The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems offers: * Bachelor's program in health informatics * Master's program in health informatics