Learning Health Sciences Education

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Create Change in Health Care

Transform knowledge into actionable change through our cutting-edge disciplines in health science.

Fast-Track Your Career and Impact

If you are seeking the skills to transform knowledge into actionable change in health care, the U-M Medical School Department of Learning Health Sciences offers specialized programs that will take you to the next step in your career. We're at the forefront of the newest disciplines in health science, providing you with unparalleled opportunities to become a leader in the health systems of the future.

Whether you are currently in a health care-related role or you are interested in joining this ever-growing industry, we offer a range of online and residential educational programs, all designed to maximize your impact.

Our Programs

Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems MS | PhD Program

Learning health systems are organizations or networks that continuously self-study and adapt using data and analytics to transform practice. Our graduate programs are on the forefront of this emerging science.

Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems Online MS Program

Our online MS program is designed to be completed in three semesters over 12 months for full-time students or over two-three years for part-time students.

Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE)

For health professionals who want to develop their educational leadership and scholarship, this personalized program fits alongside your current educational responsibilities.

Medical Education Scholars Program (MESP)

MESP provides an opportunity for competitively selected U-M Medical School faculty to study and apply principles of medical education in-depth.

Meet Our Team
Collaboration is at the heart of learning health sciences, a trans-disciplinary field of study that naturally convenes experts that share a common goal: to develop deeper understanding of learning processes and their supporting environments. Behavioral, social and organizational science; cognitive, information and computer science; industrial and systems engineering and other fields combine to create the rich intellectual tapestry of our work.
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Medical Embedded Learning Health Systems Training & Research (MEL-STaR) center

Supported by a program-project grant from AHRQ and PCORI, MEL-STaR will support the didactic and experiential training of 40 Learning Health System (LHS) scientists, to be known as “MEL-STaR Scholars”.

Learn about MEL-STaR

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Featured News & Stories

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Department News

Cassie Turner (HILS PhD 2026) Delivers Commencement Remarks

Congratulations to Cassie Turner for being selected as one of three student speakers to give remarks at Spring Commencement on May 2nd.
 Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, M.D., FNAP
Medical School News

Look to Leadership column: When education becomes care

Every person who has ever taught a future healthcare professional will one day, in all likelihood, become a patient. It is one of the quiet truths of health professions education that the work of teaching is never purely academic. It ripples forward in ways we cannot always see, shaping the hands and minds that will one day care for us, our families and our communities.
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Department News

HILS PhD Student Haoting Gao Wins OGPS Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award

Congratulations to Haoting Gao for winning the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award!
Department News

In Conversation: Chuck Friedman and Vasa Curcin discuss Learning Health Systems and AI

Professors Friedman and Curcin (Kings College) discuss Learning Health Systems and AI.
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Christian Thurstone, MD, MS, HILS-Online alum: Using practical tools for broad impact

In this article, Christian talks about his experience with the HILS Online MS program and how using what he learned has helped with publishing papers, implementing new programs and addressing behavioral and social health needs.
 Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA
Medical School News

Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, appointed Assistant Dean for Faculty, Clinical Track

Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, has been appointed assistant dean for faculty, clinical track in the Medical School, effective May 11, 2026. In this role, she will provide leadership as part of the Office of Faculty Affairs on the oversight of clinical track faculty appointments, promotions, and advancement in the Medical School.