Leadership begins with self-awareness. Through the Telfer MHA, you'll strengthen your ability to make informed decisions, navigate complexity, and lead with confidence, integrity and purpose.

Through the program you will develop resilience, critical thinking and leadership readiness while gaining the skills to lead through change in an evolving healthcare environment.

Learn how finance, leadership, strategy, digital health, and quality improvement come together to strengthen organizational performance.  

Designed specifically for healthcare environments, the program equips you to lead teams, manage resources effectively, and deliver meaningful improvements in patient and organizational outcomes.

Healthcare challenges extend beyond any single organization. The Telfer MHA develops the systems-thinking perspective needed to understand policy, governance, equity and population health in a rapidly changing landscape. 

You'll learn how to collaborate across sectors, influence change, and contribute to stronger, more integrated health systems.  

The Telfer School of Management is one of only two business schools in Canada to hold AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA accreditation. 

As a Telfer MHA student, you'll benefit from internationally recognized standards of excellence in teaching, curriculum design and experiential learning, while earning a credential respected across Canada's healthcare sector and beyond.

Put classroom learning into practice through experiential opportunities designed around real healthcare challenges.

Choose between a four-month in-person administrative residency within a health system organization, where you'll work alongside senior executives and contribute to projects that support organizational priorities and your professional growth; or a Health Consulting Project that allows you to address a real organizational challenge in collaboration with health systems leaders and experts.

Both pathways provide valuable experience, professional connections, and opportunities to create measurable impact.

The MHA experience extends beyond the classroom.

Benefit from networking opportunities, strategic conferences, mentorship, and professional development activities designed to strengthen your leadership presence and accelerate your growth.

Learn alongside healthcare professionals who share your ambition to make a difference and build relationships that will support your career long after graduation.

Our students bring a wide range of experiences and perspectives from across healthcare, the public sector, and community-based organizations. This diversity enriches classroom discussions, challenges assumptions, and broadens understanding of the complex issues shaping healthcare today.

Through collaboration, meaningful dialogue, and shared learning, students build a strong sense of community and develop lasting professional connections that extend well beyond the classroom.

For more than 60 years, Telfer MHA graduates have been helping improve healthcare delivery and health systems across Canada.

As a student, you'll gain access to an extensive network of alumni working in hospitals, government, health authorities, community organizations, consulting firms, and beyond.

Located in Ottawa, the nation's capital, Telfer offers unique access to organizations including Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), and the Canadian College of Health Leaders.

This proximity creates opportunities for networking, experiential learning, and career development that are difficult to replicate elsewhere.