Health Sector Management

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A huge sector in all industrialized economies, healthcare is an area with significant management challenges. The Health Sector Management emphasis focuses on management in health care delivery systems, competition, and regulation in the global pharmaceutical industry; healthcare innovation; and management consulting.

For additional information on what we offer students interested in careers in healthcare and life sciences please visit the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy website:
HealthSectorStrategy

For information on our Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences, our MBA for working professionals customized for the global healthcare & life sciences sector:

For information on our MD/MBA combined Degree Program:

Subjects you will study include:

• Business strategies in the current pharmaceutical industry and surrounding health and life sciences ecosystem
• Major players and institutions in the pharmaceutical sector
• Craft and process of management consulting in the health sector
• Models of health innovation in Canada and globally
• Mapping the Canadian health sector (with comparisons to other industrialized countries)
• Healthcare Financing, Incentives and Value-Based Care
• Public-private partnerships
• Performance management, governance, and control
• Organizational redesign and system integration

Research insights from our faculty:

 

Professor Avi Goldfarb

"Canadian Study Shows Low Incident of False Positive Test Results from Rapid Antigen Tests”

The study, published in JAMA, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, showed the overall rate of false-positive results among the total rapid antigen test screens for SARS-CoV-2 was very low.

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Professor Anita McGahan

“Study Examines the most effective COVID-19 control policies”

Which COVID policies are most effective? A new study examines the effectiveness of COVID-19 control policies in 40 jurisdictions including countries and U.S. states.

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Requirements to complete

You must successfully complete three of the following core courses:

Core courses

It is also recommended that students in this emphasis choose other courses from the following selection:

Recommended courses offered by other University of Toronto Faculties (Please note that space availability varies and enrolment is not guaranteed):

IHPME (Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation)*

*One course on the Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation list may count as one of the three courses required to complete the emphasis with permission from Coordinator

In the Master of Health Informatics program

MHI2001 Fundamentals of Health Informatics

Karim Keshavjee / Aviv Shachak

MHI2012 Introduction to Big Data for Health

Morgan Lim / David Kirsch

MHI2018 Knowledge Management & Systems

Karim Keshavjee

In the Health Services Research program

HAD5760 Advanced Health Economics & Policy Analysis

Audrey Laporte

In the MHSc – Health Administration program

HAD5736 Operations Research: Tools for Quantitative Health Care Decision Making

Mike Carter and Dionne Aleman

HAD5765 Case Studies in Health Policy

Raisa Deber

HAD5713H Introduction to Health Information Systems

Mark Fam

In the SLI program – System, Leadership & Innovation

HAD400H-F3 Innovation in Integrated Health and Social Care: Principles and Practice (reading course)

Geoff Anderson

HAD2008 Human Factors, Strategy, and Innovation Leadership

Abi Sriharan

HAD2003H Leading and Responding to Health Policy and System Change

Geoff Anderson

HAD2002H Research Methods for Evaluating Health System Innovation

Pre-Requisite:  HAD2003H Leading and Responding to Health Policy and System Change

Geoff Anderson

HAD2007 Leading Health Systems Innovation and Transformation

Abi Sriharan and Terry Sullivan

* Experimental Course

+ If student would like a course in this list to count toward the emphasis in Health Sector Management (i.e. replace a Core Course) approval is needed by the Coordinator; course projects must be in the Health Sector

++ Part of UofT Mississauga Masters in Biotechnology Program

+++ Part of UofT Mississauga Master of Management of Innovation program

Career Paths for Health Sector Management

This emphasis is relevant for those students who expect to be managing in or operating for-profit or not-for-profit organizations in the health care sector. This may include positions in consulting, hospital administration, government, medical devices, bio-pharma, insurance, new ventures, and venture capital and finance.

Rotman grads working in healthcare

 

Hamza Sajjad, Customer Success Manager, Digital Surgery Solutions, Johnson & Johnson

A healthcare leader with a diverse background spanning many industries

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Joëlle Lavoie, Business Development Manager, CAN Health Network

 
Helping Canadian innovators scale their technologies nationally and beyond 

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Flexible Internship Program

The Rotman Full-Time MBA Program provides a unique opportunity for students to integrate and apply management knowledge gained within the program through a 4-month internship. Students are required to complete the course “Applied Management: Placement” in conjunction with a work placement which may be done in the Summer, Fall or Winter terms. Depending on their academic area of concentration/major and career objectives, students will be guided on the best work term option to secure a placement with an employer. Throughout their work placement, students will benefit from enhanced communication with their host employers, tracking of project deliverables and feedback from faculty supervisors.

Companies that have recruited at Rotman

A selection of companies where Rotman MBA graduates have worked in recent years:

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