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🚨 Announcing a new Master’s in Applied Digital Health and Responsible AI at Ashoka University @AshokaUniv! 📣 🇮🇳 Does India need a dedicated degree for the people who will lead AI and digital transformation in its healthcare system? 👀 Most people who will deploy, buy or audit healthcare AI in India over the next decade have never been formally trained to do it. Clinicians are learning it from vendor demos, engineers are learning medicine from ChatGPT, and administrators are signing contracts somewhere in between. 🚀 Envisioned and led by Anurag Agrawal [@AnuragAgrawalMD], my colleagues and I at Koita Centre for Digital Health at Ashoka University (KCDH-A) [@KCDH_A] are launching a one-year, full-time MSc in Applied Digital Health & Responsible AI. It brings digital health, health systems, health data and responsible AI together in one programme, built around how Indian healthcare actually works. 🧳 Today, India’s options in this space are mostly online executive certificates, self-paced diplomas, or two-year degrees. Until now, a one-year degree like this usually meant a UK MSc with £15,000 to £30,000 in tuition alone. Now it’s available in India. ✅ Who can apply: anyone with a recognised four-year undergraduate degree in any discipline. MBBS, BDS, BPharm, BSc, Economics, BBA and CS all qualify, and so do final-year students. You don’t need any prior coding, technical or medical background. ✅ Deadlines: Round 1 closes 14 December 2026. Classes begin 23 August 2027. 💰 On cost: you can get education loans with interest subvention, so finances alone shouldn’t stop a strong applicant. 👩‍⚕️ Doctors wondering where AI fits in your career, engineers who want to build for health without breaking things, people in policy who have to make calls on AI: we want your application. 📎 Please share this with anyone who belongs in the first cohort.