Population Health Management (MSc)

Careers after graduation

Due to the continued rise of PHM and the limited availability of dedicated master programmes, graduates can expect excellent career opportunities in the (inter)national job market. This is reflected in the increasing number of relevant job vacancies. As an academic strategic partner of PHM, you have the skills to look and act across domains and integrally solve complex healthcare issues. This is requested in a wide range of healthcare organizations and businesses and in government.

Future jobs after Population Health Management

After your graduation, you will have the opportunity to work in many organisations in strategic staff positions or as a data scientist, depending on your focus. This could be as part of health and social care organisations and insurers, policy organisations at international, national and local level, or suppliers in health care to researchers in academic institutes. You will be the academic advisor between various perspectives with a clear vision on future sustainable health care.

Since the start of the master's programme in 2021, our alumni now have positions such as: 

• Consultant in the health care sector 
• Researcher at a university or RIVM 
• Healthcare purchaser at a health insurer 
• Advisor in for instance health care, youth care or medicine 
• PhD and teacher  
• Project manager for a European organization in Brussel 
• Policy advisor at the municipality or national level 
• Data science researcher at a municipal health center (GGD) 

Competences after graduation

The programme is competence oriented. PHM expertise lies at the core of the competences:

PHM expertise 
Reason from the need and necessity of health challenges in the population, thinking and acting in a holistic, innovative, sustainable, transformative and proactive way and being able to communicate about complex health care issues with various professionals involved. 

Academic skills 
Execute and combine different scientific methodologies (mixed methods) in a responsible way to innovate the medical professional field.   

Data-driven thinking and acting 
Gather, integrate, edit, interpret and report qualitative as well as quantitative data from the medical and social domain relevant for the various stakeholders. 

Interdisciplinary thinking and acting 
Approach and analyse health care issues from different perspectives, as well as argue and select the best solutions. 

Deliberative governance thinking and acting 
Weigh pros and cons on different organisational levels to support an effective decision-making structure. 

Transformative skills 
Being able to think and act proactively from a technological, societal and medical perspective in an ever-changing, complex professional and organisational context. 

Alumni experiences

You might wonder what your career will look like after completing a master's in Population Health Management. After all, the program is broad, and PHM is an emerging field. Fortunately, there are students who came before you. Learn about the experience from one of our alumni working in the field after graduation.

For almost a year now, I have been working with great pleasure as a policy officer at ZonMw. In my role, I mainly focus on international collaboration and the field of ‘Research on Research’. My second master’s degree, Population Health Management, played a clear role in obtaining this position — not only in terms of content, but especially because of the vision for a future-proof healthcare system that I developed during this program. 

Within the Innovation & Development department, I apply that same mindset every day: contributing to sustainable, future-oriented healthcare. In addition, I work intensively in an international context, where intercultural communication is essential. Thanks to the diverse perspectives of my international fellow students during my first master’s year, I gained a lot of experience in intercultural communication — a skill I now regularly apply in my daily work!

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