GRADUATE CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Delivered purely online, this course offers experienced health professionals both a stand-alone qualification and a pathway to the Graduate Diploma of Public Health or the Master of Public Health.

You will be able to choose 4 public health subjects from a range of 5, including:

social, cultural and behavioural factors in public health, health policy and advocacy, health systems and economics, global and environmental health issues and epidemiology.

To graduate with this qualification, a student must satisfactorily complete subjects with a total of 40 credit points. The four subjects can be chosen from those shown in the table below.

CORE UNITS

• PUBH6001 Health Policy and Advocacy
• PUBH6005 Epidemiology
• PUBH6003 Health Systems and Economics
• PUBH6002 Global and Environmental Health Issues
• PUBH6000 Social, Behavioural and Cultural Factors in Public Health

• Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical practice of public health, and the principles of access and equity;
• Demonstrate an understanding of how intervention strategies to detect, prevent and control diseases among human populations are applied;
• Understand how the major social, behavioural and cultural variables and issues affect the health of populations;