Biomedical Informatics

Entry requirements

Applicants should have:

Biostatistics background, including, for example:

• Hypothesis testing
• Linear regression
• Classification basics: what it is, how to test and diagnose a classifier (e.g.sensitivity/specificity)

Programming and computer science:

• Experience with at least one programming language (including knowledge and understanding of algorithms, variables, control structures, etc.)
• Knowledge of the basics of the R programming language
• Data handling (e.g. managing files, parsing data, basic database principle

Months of entry

August

Course content

The Master of Medical Sciences in Biomedical Informatics (MMSc-BMI) program will train students to become contributors to the rapidly evolving use of biomedical data for revolutionary advances in scientific inquiry and technological development. This program is created for students who are looking to develop skills in data science in the context of medicine and biological science to improve human health. Through a rigorous combination of core coursework and a year-long full-time thesis research project, our students will graduate with the computational, methodological, and data science skills to contribute to an ongoing revolution in biomedical discovery.

The MMSc in Biomedical Informatics program is a full-time, residential program completed over two academic years (4 semesters) of study.

Classes are held at the Harvard Longwood Campus in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Harvard University Main Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This program cannot be completed online or part-time.

Fees and funding

British citizens who are – or will be – graduates of British universities should check out both Kennedy Scholarships and Frank Knox Fellowships.

Both of these awards offer full tuition and health insurance coverage and a generous stipend towards living expenses. They are offered annually in competition.

Please note that you will need to submit your application to either or both awards ahead of the deadline for your (totally separate and independent) Harvard application. Kennedy Scholarship and Frank Knox Fellowship applications are to be made online via their websites between mid-August and late-October in the same application season as you will submit your application to Harvard. Awards made at interview in London in January are provisional, pending confirmation of a place on the course.