Master of Global Health

The Master of Global Health prepares graduates to work and improve the health of populations in the global context.The course has a specific focus on achieving equity in health for people worldwide and on preparing you to apply public health principles in some of the most challenging and demanding conditions in the world.Medical or health and non-medical or health background graduates that are passionate about improving the health outcomes of people around the world.Find out what we look for in a Sydney School of Public Health applicant.

Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) are available for this course for eligible domestic students.

This means that your course fees are subsidised by the Australian Government and you pay a student contribution amount (SCA).

CSP places are limited in number and are allocated based on academic merit.

Admission criteria

To be eligible for admission, an applicant is required to have:

• an Australian bachelor's degree with honours or a graduate diploma or a graduate certificate or an equivalent qualification or
• an Australian bachelor's degree in a relevant field (eg. medicine and health fields such as dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physiotherapy or science, mathematics, veterinary science, or humanities and social sciences fields such as international relations, international development, economics, political science, communication and journalism, or education, or civil engineering, or law) or equivalent qualification or
• an Australian bachelor's degree in an unrelated field and two years professional work experience in health or international development.

For qualifications awarded outside Australia, equivalencies and admission criteria are determined based on the country, institution and qualification.

Commonwealth Supported Places

There are a limited number of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) available for students commencing their degree in Semester 2, 2020. Therefore, only Semester 2 applications received by 15 June will be considered for a CSP.

Please submit your CV with relevant global/public health work experience and your academic transcript, as these are used to rank candidates. If you do not submit these documents then we cannot assess your eligibility.

What you'll study

Units of Study