Transform the future of health care through innovative leadership
The Executive Master of Health Administration (EMHA) connects health care and business management to develop health-care executives with Canadian and global perspectives. Join a program that integrates leadership, management and analytical skills while introducing innovative tools and methodologies tailored to the evolving health-care sector.
Build and cultivate the health management fundamentals to succeed as a senior leader. Experience course content through the lens of leadership and innovation to address real-world cases and apply knowledge of data analytics, strategy, health policy and change management.
Why choose the Telfer EMHA?
Make an impact
Join a business school focused on building a better Canada. We’re committed to developing leaders who make an impact on our country and the world, with particular attention to sustainability, and health and wellness.
Peer networking
Telfer’s network of professors, alumni and health-care partners brings together leaders from diverse business and health-care fields. Build your professional network and create strong relationships with fellow health-care leaders.
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Explore a wide variety of health care-related subjects. Your classmates will have diverse health-care backgrounds and will have many opportunities to share insights from their own sectors. Exchange ideas with experienced leaders from acute care settings, diagnostics, primary care, mental health, pharmaceuticals, allied health and specialized medical care.
Immersive capstone experience
Take part in an integrative, immersive capstone experience in Ottawa with your classmates. Learn from local health-care leaders, guest speakers and industry experts through on-site visits. Tackle a real-world health-care management problem and apply knowledge gained in the program to offer solutions.
Unique approach for active professionals
The asynchronous structure of this online program accommodates your busy schedule and allows you to complete your studies in two years (six terms). Connect with your professors and classmates virtually to share insights and enhance course content.
Leadership coaching
Participate in the EMHA Leadership Coaching Program to match with a successful health-care executive for a series of career coaching sessions. Develop your executive leadership skills, explore other areas of the health-care sector and reflect on how your EMHA experience can position you for the future.
The Canadian health-care system is undergoing significant transformation, and it requires leaders who are knowledgeable and experienced in these areas to ensure that change is successful.
As a clinician, the EMHA program allowed me to solidify my leadership and management skills, which are often lacking in clinical training programs. The EMHA program has also given me the skills, knowledge and confidence to move into senior leadership positions in health care.— Dr. Nathan Stolch (EMHA ’23)
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The Telfer advantage
Triple Crown accreditation
The Telfer School of Management is one of only two business schools in Canada and among the top 1% of business schools in the world to have achieved the triple crown of accreditation, with MBA accreditation from three of the most demanding global organizations.
