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”.

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Department News
Applications are open for MEL-STaR second scholar cohort
Applications are open for the Michigan Embedded Learning Health System Training and Research (MEL-STaR) center, based in the Department of Learning Health Sciences.
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Health Lab
Adults don’t trust health care to use AI responsibly and without harm
Research finds that adults surveyed had low trust in their health care system to use artificial intelligence responsibly and others had low trust in their health care systems to make sure an AI tool would not harm them.
Department News
Kudos to HILS Master’s student Patrick Lewicki on LHS publication
Faculty and staff in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) program congratulate HILS Master’s student, Patrick Lewicki for his recent publication about LHS in low resource settings.
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Health Lab
Diagnostic stewardship optimizes detection of appendicitis
University of Michigan researchers found that emergency departments vary widely in how they balance the need to diagnose appendicitis with the potential harms of overtesting.
 Helen K. Morgan, M.D.
Medical School News
Helen K. Morgan, M.D., appointed faculty chair-elect for women’s careers
Helen K. Morgan, M.D., a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and learning health sciences, has been appointed faculty chair-elect for women’s careers in the Medical School. The chair-elect is one of several new Medical School roles developed during the past year that focus on the advancement — and overall thriving — of women pursuing careers in academic medicine and science at Michigan Medicine. Morgan will become chair in January 2026, and after her term is complete, she will serve in an advisory role as post-chair in 2028-29
 Katie Lynch named CNAY 2025 Champion for Change
Department News
HILS PhD student Katie Lynch named CNAY 2025 Champion for Change
The Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS) and the faculty and program staff of the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) congratulate PhD candidate, Katie Lynch on being named a Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) 2025 Champion for Change.