M.S. in Health & Behavior Analytics, Live Online

Why This M.S. in Health and Behavior Analytics Program is Right for You

33 Credits | Live Online | 12 Months Full-Time | Part-Time Option

Are you interested in the intersection of psychology, health science, research, data analytics, and human behavior? This degree helps you understand how behavior influences health — and how data can be used to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment decisions, medical recommendations, healthcare systems, digital health innovation, research, public health, and policy.

Learn how to design studies, measure behavioral and health-related variables, manage and analyze data, and communicate insights clearly to scientific, clinical, and applied audiences.

This program may be especially right for you if you want to:

• Future-proof your career in an AI-driven healthcare landscape by building the research, data, and analytical thinking skills needed to work with emerging tools in research, care, and public health
• Build a stronger path toward medical school, doctoral study in psychology, allied health professions, academic research, or a future in health data by gaining applied research and analytics experience
• Move up in your current field by adding the data skills increasingly needed in healthcare, research, public health, and service-focused roles
• Qualify for more meaningful opportunities by learning how to capture, manage, and interpret data that can guide better health decisions
• Make a measurable difference by turning data into insights that can improve care, programs, research, and public health outcomes
• Use your strengths with numbers, science, or human behavior to help people and communities while building a career with long-term growth potential
• Stand out in a changing field by developing skills in research methods, statistics, behavioral measurement, data management, and reporting

Grounded in clinical health psychology research training, the program prepares you to use both quantitative and qualitative research methods to answer scientific questions about health and human behavior.

What is Health and Behavior Analytics

Health and behavior analytics focuses on how human behavior, health data, research methods, and applied analytics work together to improve health outcomes.

Students learn how to study the relationship between behavior and health, collect and interpret behavioral data, and communicate findings that can help clinicians, researchers, organizations, companies and communities make more informed decisions.

In practical terms, this field helps answer questions such as:

• How does human behavior influence prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and health outcomes?
• How can we measure behavior accurately and ethically?
• How can health-related data be used to improve research, care, public health, and digital health tools?
• How can researchers and organizations turn complex data into clear, useful insights?

What You’ll Learn

The curriculum integrates behavioral science, clinical health psychology, research methodology, measurement theory, data management, and data analysis. You’ll learn how to connect research questions to real-world health challenges and turn behavioral and health-related data into useful insights.

You will build skills in:

• Behavioral measurement and psychometrics
• Applied statistics and statistical reasoning
• Qualitative research in clinical and health settings
• Digital health methods and behavioral data capture
• Behavioral data management and reporting
• Research design and study implementation
• Communicating insights for scientific, clinical, and applied audiences

What Makes Our Training Approach to Data Analysis Better

This program is grounded in psychology, behavioral science, and health research. You’ll learn not only how to work with data, but also how to understand the human behaviors and health-related questions behind the data.

Through applied coursework and internship experience, you’ll learn to:

• Design studies that capture behavioral and health-related variables
• Develop and validate behavioral measures using psychometrics
• Clean, manage, and analyze datasets in applied healthcare contexts
• Interpret relationships between behavior and health outcomes
• Communicate findings to researchers, clinicians, organizations, and community partners

Summer Internship Experience

As a student in this program, you complete a 3-credit summer internship in a healthcare, research, digital health, or academic setting. This experience gives students the opportunity to apply what they have learned to real-world behavioral and health data.

The internship provides hands-on experience with areas such as:

• Study implementation
• Data capture and organization
• Behavioral measurement
• Research reporting
• Applied health analytics
• Communication of findings 

You will gain supervised experience applying behavioral and health analytics to real-world datasets.