Overview 2020
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This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students
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The public health graduate program has been developed in close collaboration with industry. This ensures that teaching is linked closely into current policy and practice and builds on the networks that are essential to effective public health practice. This program is relevant to those who work within public health as well as those wanting to move into the field of public health. The Master of Public Health comprises coursework and research and involves specialisation into one of four streams which are Epidemiology, Environment, Disease and Food, Health Services and Remote and Polar Health.
The course is able to be completed entirely via distance study methods but can be supported with optional mixed method delivery in some components of study at Hobart, Launceston, Burnie and Roselle campuses particularly through short course intensives.
Course objectives
- To provide specialist education in public health, which comprises a core set of skills and competencies and is supplemented by an option of more specialised areas of interest, which may include epidemiological, environmental, health services, and remote and polar.
- To provide specialist education in the six areas of practice outlined in the Foundation Competencies for Master of Public Health Graduates in Australia. They are: health monitoring and surveillance, disease prevention and control, health protection, health promotion, health policy planning and management and evidence based professional population health practice.
- To support the student to develop as a reflective practitioner of public health who is able to engage objectively with public health issues either as individually or as a group member.
- To facilitate a student-centered approach designed to encourage a breadth of knowledge, depth of understanding, application of skills, synthesis of approaches and originality of ideas within the discipline of public health.
- To challenge traditional concepts of health and encourage the student to think broadly and laterally about the social, economic, cultural and environmental determinants of health and inequalities and inequities in health at a population level.
- To encourage students to appreciate the complexities of health at a population level and to draw on a broad knowledge and understanding when developing or contributing to health policy or strategy. To emphasise that improvements in health occur through effective partnership with communities, government, industry, education, health professionals and non-government organisations and highlight the importance and value of a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to health improvement.
- To encourage an understanding of the fundamental importance of ethics in public health practice.
Career outcomes
The Masters of Public Health will strengthen the careers of health professionals in the discipline ofpublic health and offer other graduates the opportunity to pursue a career in public health.
Course structure
Entry requirements
Fees & scholarships
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Scholarships
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