MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (ADVANCED)

Students will be trained in skills such as planning, implementation and evaluation of public health programs, health promotion and disease prevention strategies, advocacy, leadership and management, statistics and epidemiology and analytical and communication skills.

In the Capstone project, students will have the opportunity to explore a public health issue of their choice through a 6-month research project.

To graduate with this qualification, a student must satisfactorily complete 160 credit points (13 core subjects x 10 credit points) and three electives of 10 credit points each, for a combined course total of 160 credit points.

CORE UNITS

• PUBH6013 Qualitative Research Methods for Public Health
• STAT6001 Public Health Informatics
• PUBH6012 Capstone B: Applied Research Project in Public Health
• PUBH6008 Capstone A: Applied Research Project in Public Health
• PUBH6004 Leadership and Effecting Change in Public Health
• PUBH6007 Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation
• PUBH6001 Health Policy and Advocacy
• STAT6000 Statistics for Public Health
• PUBH6006 Community Health and Disease Prevention
• PUBH6005 Epidemiology
• PUBH6003 Health Systems and Economics
• PUBH6002 Global and Environmental Health Issues
• PUBH6000 Social, Behavioural and Cultural Factors in Public Health

ELECTIVE UNITS

• Electives to be approved by the Program Director

• Apply local and global public health awareness to public health challenges
• Design and apply intervention strategies to detect, prevent and control diseases among human populations.
• Apply knowledge and skills of systematic research to public health practice.
• Apply knowledge and skills of systematic research to public health practice.