M6O Graduate Diploma in Public Health

Overview 2020

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 2 Years, up to a maximum of 5 Years
Duration
Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

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

This program introduces and consolidates fundamental principles of public health in Australia and globally. It encourages students to think broadly about the factors that affect health and wellbeing including social, environmental, cultural, economic, political and structural issues. It aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to address challenges to public health through effective public health practice that is collaborative and multidisciplinary.

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

Year 1

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Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
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Hobart	Semester 2
Hobart	Spring school (extended)

Graduate Diploma in Public Health (M6O)

Overview 2020

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Career outcomes

Course structure

Year 1

Introduction to Public Health

Introduction to Epidemiology

Systems Thinking in Public Health

Global Health Systems

Evaluating Health Interventions

Operational Aspects of Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments

Year 2

Introduction to Biostatistics

Extended Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Life Course Epidemiology

Evaluating Health Interventions

Health Economics

Supervision & Leadership, Theory, Process & Practice

Translational Research and Health Service Innovation

Leadership in Health and Human Services

Evaluating Health Interventions

Health Economics

Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services

Evaluating Health Interventions

Health Economics

Environmental Health

Advanced Food Safety Management

Communicable disease epidemiology

Medicine in Extreme Environments

E-Health

Human Behaviour in Extreme Environments

Practical Skills for Remote Health Care

Expedition Medicine

Entry requirements

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International students

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