BACHELOR OF APPLIED PUBLIC HEALTH

You’re a big-picture thinker, who wants to see healthy changes available to everyone.

You want to expand your knowledge to make a real difference to public health.

You’ll learn about health at a population level:

health promotion campaigns and advocacy, health policy, health monitoring and screening, and planning, implementation and evaluation of health programs.

Our industry placement program means you’ll be more than ready to meet growing demand for high quality public health graduates.

This course is comprised of 24 subjects, this includes 8 core subjects, 8 specialisation core subjects and 8 elective subjects.

CORE UNITS

• Capstone 1
• SOC202A Introduction to Social Research Methods
• PUBH2101 Health Surveillance and Epidemiology
• PUBH2105 Health Protection and Environmental Health
• PUBH2103 Health Promotion and Advocacy
• PUBH2104 Health Policy, Planning and Management
• PUBH2000 Foundations of Public Health
• PUBH2102 Disease Prevention and Control

SPECIALISATION (CORE) UNITS

• NUTR2003 Nutrition and Society
• PUBH2001 Social and Political Determinants of Health
• PUBH2015 Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs
• COMR2004 Industry Placement
• PUBH2017 Health Issues across the Lifespan
• PUBH2011 Global Health
• PUBH2007 Public Health Program Development, Implementation and Evaluation
• PUBH2006 Health Systems, Healthcare Financing and Economics

ELECTIVE UNITS - NUTRITION STREAM

• NUTR2006 Diet and Disease
• NUTR2005 Lifespan Nutrition
• NUTR2002 Human Nutrition 2
• NUTR2001 Human Nutrition 1
• FHN201 Foundations of Nutrition

ELECTIVE UNITS - COMMUNITY SERVICES STREAM

• WEL203A Chronic Illness and Disability
• WEL201A Managing the Needs of Diverse Client Groups
• WEL301A Community Development
• WEL102A Health and Wellbeing
• COU101A Interpersonal Communication

ELECTIVE UNITS - COUNSELLING STREAM

• COU101 Theories of Counselling
• COU202A Mental Health and the Community
• COU104A Applied Counselling 1
• COU101A Interpersonal Communication

ELECTIVE UNITS - HEALTH AND WELLBEING STREAM

• HWEL2001 Body Systems & Disease
• HWEL 2006 Social & Emotional Wellbeing 
• HWEL2007 Active Lifestyle Promotion 
• HWEL2009 Active Aging and Falls Prevention
• HWEL2010 Corporate Health

• Critically evaluate national health care systems, standards, and legislation paying particular attention to underlying ethical principles and the impact of the public health profession on their establishment
• Undertake advocacy for public health problems drawing on evidence, history, and current and future practice.
• Demonstrate a commitment to equitable access, social justice and human rights in the development and implementation of public health initiatives.