Big data arising in the Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, including but not restricted to various forms of omics data, imaging data, geospatial data, mobile health data and electronic health records, present unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the biostatistics community in both research and in the training of the next generation of students. To address the rapidly growing needs of a workforce with well-trained quantitative and computational skills in data analytics, beginning the fall semester of 2019, the UM Department of Biostatistics launches a concentration on health data science (HDS) as part of the Master of Science program. This concentration program expands and facilitates the professional training of students in the Master of Science Program featuring computational skills and data analytics. This new training program is particularly appealing for those who take the Master of Science degree as a terminal degree and plan on entering the data science industry. Ongoing PhD students are able to complete this concentration. If they choose this route, some additional coursework is needed in order to meet the requirements of both the PhD and the HDS concentration.