Felipe Cepeda is Program Director of the Master of Health Informatics and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
As Program Director, he provides academic and strategic leadership for the MHI program, including curriculum and teaching, admissions, student experience, faculty engagement, program review, and external partnerships.
His academic work focuses on health-system value and digital health implementation, particularly how incentives, workflow, interoperability, governance, accountability, and measurement shape whether digital-health initiatives are adopted, sustained, and able to deliver intended value without creating additional burden. His teaching and program leadership emphasize the judgement required to evaluate digital technologies and lead implementation under real-world health-system constraints. A central focus is preparing MHI graduates to work effectively across clinical, organizational, technical, and policy contexts.
Cepeda’s peer-reviewed work examines interoperability and incentives and the implementation of disease-prevention and behaviour-change evidence at scale. He contributes clinical, behavioural, governance, and implementation perspectives to research collaborations in diabetes prevention, AI-enabled interventions, data governance, and mental-health informatics. He also serves as a Scientific Advisory Panel Member and Research Collaborator with Care4Mind, contributing to work on workflow, interoperability, governance, implementation, and evaluation.
His perspective is informed by previous medical practice in Colombia, current practice as a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario, and earlier leadership experience in quality management, performance measurement, workflow redesign, and organizational change.