Positioning You at the Center of Canada's Healthcare Future
Advance your career by gaining the leadership and business skills to make a greater impact in the Canadian health system. The Telfer Master of Health Administration (MHA) empowers healthcare professionals to broaden their perspective, master essential management skills, and lead with confidence in a dynamic health environment. Designed to bridge health and management, this hands-on program will help you cultivate your leadership potential and drive better outcomes for health organizations in your community.
A better tomorrow is waiting for you.
Ready to make your MHA matter?
Why Choose the Telfer MHA?
Through paid four-month residencies with a health-care organization, you take part in practical, hands-on experiences that bridge classroom learning and industry challenges.
The program offers comprehensive networking events, professional development opportunities and four strategic conferences over 20 months where students connect directly with C-suite executives and health systems administrators who share real-world insights and industry challenges.
Professional development spans a wide range of critical areas including executive coaching, conflict resolution, presentation skills and advanced writing capabilities. Our innovative mentorship program is designed to facilitate program success, bridge academic learning and real-world insights and build a lasting MHA community. These integrated experiences help you develop the strong leadership and communication skills that are essential for management-level roles in today’s health-care environment.
Students come from varied backgrounds in health agencies, businesses and public administration. This diversity fosters rich discussions, peer learning and close interaction with faculty and classmates, enhancing personalized learning and collaboration.
Which Telfer health-care program is right for you?
MHA >
Designed for mid-career health professionals, this flexible program equips you to apply leadership and management skills in real time while preparing you to advance into more senior roles.
- Units:
- 45 units
- Duration:
- 20 months + 4 month Administrative Residency
- Schedule:
- Weeknights + week-end classes
- Class Experience:
- 30 to 40 students in in-person and in virtual (30%)
- Languages:
- Classes in English only
- Minimum work experience required:
- 3 years
- Testing requirement:
- None
Executive MHA >
Tailored for senior health-care executives, the Executive MHA online program enhances your strategic leadership and management skills, empowering participants to lead transformative change across complex health-care systems.
- Units:
- 36 units
- Duration:
- 24 months
- Schedule:
- asynchronous (80%)
- Class Experience:
- online
- language:
- Classes in English only
- Minimum work experience required:
- 5 years’ managerial experience in health care
- Testing requirement:
- Havard Math Module
Triple Crown Accreditation
The Telfer School of Management is one of only 2 business schools in Canada and within the top 1% of business schools in the world to have achieved the triple crown of accreditations, the highest standards of international accreditations awarded by the most demanding global organizations:
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CHEO’s Autism Program supports families with children on the autism spectrum. Its services include sleep support, social skills groups, school readiness services, education sessions, and caregiver support. CHEO’s Autism Program is the only autism provider that delivers home-based care to families in rural areas outside the nation’s capital. In addition, by bundling different services together, CHEO is able to offer high-quality services while lowering the cost for families.
— Taylor Johansen, MHA ’14
Director, Autism Program, CHEO
Based in Ottawa, the Archipel Ontario Health Team is a group of health and community service organizations that provides health care and services to communities. The team uses a person-centred approach and is developing services so people can have the information and resources they need for reliable, accessible and integrative health care. Archipel’s new services include a database to help people find services in their communities and enabling quick, secure access to people’s medical information.
— Elizabeth Tanguay, MHA ’21
Director, Archipel Ontario Health Team
With nine locations across Ottawa, the Shepherds of Good Hope is a leader in shelter services and supportive housing, helping to address challenges related to mental health, addiction and trauma. SoGO stabilizes people through shelter programs, provides a permanent home with around-the-clock support, serves hundreds at its soup kitchen and prepares people for employment. It provides practical and emotional support to homeless people, to empower those who are vulnerable to improve their lives, providing them with the resources to do so.
— Steven Parker, MHA ’22
(2022 Winner of the Michel Lalonde Award - MHA),
Senior manager of supportive housing, Shepherds of Good Hope
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