Overview 2022
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The Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health provides you with a pathway into professional practice, and will equip you to work at the front line of health protection, assessing environmental health risks and combat a range of environmental public health challenges including food safety, pollution, climate change and the prevention of communicable diseases.
Whilst primarily based in Hobart, the course has a whole of Tasmania focus, Developed in partnership with industry and the profession, this course provides a pathway to further study into the Master of Public Health. This ensures that graduates are practice-ready and have strong links with practitioners, employers and systems that address environmental health and able to progress to relevant further study in public health.
If you have a passion for science, health and environment and like working outdoors and with people, this course is for you. It is a pathway to a career not just a job.
Learning Outcomes
Practical experience
Taught by experienced Environmental Health Officers, your studies include real world assessments that reflect the work of Environmental Health Professionals. This course includes a 2 day intensive workshop, field trips and work placements across Tasmania, giving you over 100 hours of industry experience.
Receive on the job mentoring and make vital connections for future employment opportunities.
Career outcomes
Professional Accreditation
Environmental Health Australia (https://www.eh.org.au/)
Course structure
Core units
This unit develops knowledge and skills relating to the role of Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) in developing, enforcing, evaluating and advising on legislative, legal and policy instruments designed to protect and manage environmental health across all jurisdictions. A thorough understanding…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit develops knowledge and skills relating to sustainability; land use planning including health impact assessment (HIA) and environmental impact assessment (EIA); air, water and environmental noise pollution; contaminated land; waste management; and environmental management systems (EMS). Contemporary environmental protection…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for CAM544 Environmental Management and Protection
This unit develops knowledge and skills relating to toxicology, environmental health risk assessment, including core principles, frameworks and procedures for environmental health risk assessment and critical evaluation of evidence underpinning environmental health risk assessment. It also introduces risk management and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for CAM545 Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Management
This unit develops professional competencies to assess environmental health risks, select and implement management tools, processes and strategies to effectively control health, safety and environmental hazards, and communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders. Topics covered in this unit include…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit develops professional competencies to assess environmental risks, select and implement management tools,processes and strategies to effectively control health, safety and environmental hazards, and communicate effectivelywith a variety of stakeholders. Topics covered in this unit include research methods, projectmanagement,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
This unit will provide a broad understanding of current environmental health concepts. Students undertaking this course will gain insight into how our health is influenced by our environments and ecology, and the likely impacts of climate change and benefits of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Communicable Disease Epidemiology will explore communicable diseases of humans from an epidemiological perspective. It will provide an introductory overview of the basic biological knowledge needed to understand the interactions within and between populations of microbes, human and other animals. Students…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for CAM626 Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Traditional approaches to food safety assurance are failing to keep up with the modern food industry. In response, and to harmonise international trade in food, food safety management is moving to a "risk-based approach that relies strongly on synthesis of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
A completed recognised bachelor degree (AQF7) (or higher award) in a health or science discipline; and A minimum 50 credit points (equivalent of one semester full-time study) of recognised basic science units that were included at Bachelor level and must include: • a minimum of 12.5 credit points (one unit) of chemistry; and • a further 37.5 credit points (equivalent to three units) in other science areas (e.g. microbiology, physics, anatomy and physiology, life science). International students must provide evidence of meeting the university’s English language requirements for public health courses.
Credit transfer
Students may be granted advanced standing reducing the duration of the Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health qualification based on a case-by-case assessment of unit equivalency or RPL credit.
Articulation
Students who complete the Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health may receive credit for up to 100 credit points for units studied within this course into the Master of Public Health.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Cost shouldn’t get in the way of you studying.
If you’re a domestic student, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place in this course. This means your fees will be subsidised by the Australian Government. You’ll only need to pay the student contribution amount for each unit you study within the course.
You may also be able to defer payment of the student contribution amount by accessing a HECS-HELP loan from the Government. If eligible, you’ll only have to pay your tuition fees once you start earning above a specific amount.
Further information is available at Scholarships, fees and costs.
Student contributionStudent contribution amounts are charged for each unit of study. This means that how much you’ll pay will depend on which units you choose. Find out more about student contribution amounts.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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