A: Students in health informatics often come from three large categories, which are: 1) a computational or quantitative background (e.g., applied mathematics, biostatistics, computer science, information technology); 2) medicine (e.g., nursing, pharmacy, medical school, or other medical field); or, 3) the basic and biomedical sciences (e.g., biology). Public Health is also an important field to know and understand as a health informatician. As long as the applicant has familiarity with one of these areas, the coursework you take in the program will help to fill any gaps in your training or knowledge as they apply to health informatics. While not a prerequisite for joining the program, we also do like when students have previous experience or exposure to computer programming languages, such as C, Python, Perl, Java, etc. This program specifically trains students to use Python and R.