Master’s and PhD resources at UTHealth Houston

This section provides quality and research training opportunities for master’s and PhD students at UTHealth Houston. For specific courses and certificates of training, please reach out to your department’s program advisors. Quality improvement resources include:

Course and certification training

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston: BMI 5315 (external link) Quality and Outcome Improvement in Healthcare

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston: Graduate Certificate in Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (external link)

UTHealth Houston School of Public Health’s Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health (MPACH): PHM3746L Evaluation and Improvement of Healthcare Quality (12-week summer course)

UTHealth Houston School of Public Health: Certificate in Dissemination and Implementation Science (external link) (15-credits)

Webpages

QI projects (external link) within the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects

QI assessment resources within the Center for Humanities and Ethics with information from the UTHealth Houston Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and I-LEAD

QI leadership contacts and projects (external link) in the Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety

Introduction to the Center for Quality Health IT Improvement (external link) (CQHII) in the School of Biomedical Informatics

Research trainings

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) trainings (external link) offered by the Committee for Protection of Human Subjects

Research education programs list (external link) for investigator training available from the Clinical Trials Resource Center

Other resources

Texas data snapshot tables (external link) for non-medical driver domains and sources

Texas All-Payor Claims Database (external link) (TX-APCD), which includes medical, pharmacy, and dental claims, as well as eligibility and provider files

Data requests (external link) from the Center for Healthcare Data (CHCD), which supports research and population health, including claims (i.e., Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial), electronic medical records, and nonmedical drivers of health (NMDOH)

Guide to request data from the School of Public Health Center for Health Care Data: A fee is charged for all data requests to cover extraction costs, with data access granted after payment is received.