Public Health/HealthManagement

The Master of Public Health / Health Management is an innovative and a popular approach to postgraduate health education, enabling candidates to specialise both in public health and health management. 

The combined program provides graduates with essential knowledge, skills and attributes to carry out senior managerial and leadership roles in … For more content click the Read More button below.The Master of Public Health / Health Management is an innovative and a popular approach to postgraduate health education, enabling candidates to specialise both in public health and health management. 

The combined program provides graduates with essential knowledge, skills and attributes to carry out senior managerial and leadership roles in population, clinical and departmental health services.Candidates wishing to qualify for both the Master of Public Health and the Master of Health Management can do so with a total of 72 UOC.The Master of Public Health (MPH) is widely recognised as essential for a career in population health, including health promotion, primary health care, policy formulation, research, and management of health programs.The Master of Health Management (MHM) has been designed to provide students with the essential knowledge, skills and attributes required for senior managerial roles in health service delivery.Read More

Core Courses

Students must take 42 UOC of the following courses.keyboard_arrow_down

PHCM90416 UOCFoundations in Public Health and Health Care Systems
PHCM93916 UOCStrategy, Policy and Change
PHCM94416 UOCHealthcare Economics and Financial Management
PHCM97016 UOCHealth Leadership and Workforce Management
PHCM97486 UOCClinical Governance and Risk Management
PHCM90126 UOCHealth Promotion and Social Perspectives of Health
PHCM94986 UOCEpidemiology and Statistics for Public Health

Specialisations

Completion of a specialisation is optional. Students may choose a maximum of one specialisations listed below as part of their Masters of Public Health.keyboard_arrow_down

Specialisation
PHCMAS30 UOCPublic Health
PHCMFS30 UOCInfectious Diseases Control
PHCMIS30 UOCInternational Health
PHCMJS30 UOCHealth Promotion
PHCMPS30 UOCPrimary Health Care
PHCMSS30 UOCAboriginal Health & Wellbeing
PHCMTS30 UOCHealth Economic Evaluation
PHCMUS30 UOCEpidemiology
PHCMVS30 UOCSocial Research
PHCMZS30 UOCPublic Security
PHCMCT30 UOCAgeing and Health

Academic Practice: International Students

International students from non-English speaking countries enrolled in the full time program in Sydney (Kensington campus) are required to take the following additional preparatory course in their first semester. This course is available for all students to assist to gain maximum benefit from their study. The course is made available at no charge to students and does not contribute to the UOC requirements of the degree.keyboard_arrow_down

PHCM91000 UOCAcademic Practice

Prescribed Electives

Students must complete 30 UOC of the following courseskeyboard_arrow_down

any level 9 Public Health and Community Medicine course
any level 5 ASU Medicine course

Project, Independent Study or Internship

Students may apply to their Program Director to be allowed to replace a maximum of 12 UOC of prescribed electives with the following courses.Part-time students can complete the 12 UOC Project (PHCM9144) part time by enrolling in PHCM9145 (6 UOC) in two consecutive terms.keyboard_arrow_down

PHCM91036 UOCIndependent Study 6 Units of Credit
PHCM91436 UOCInternship
PHCM91486 UOCMinor Project
PHCM914412 UOCProject

Applicants are required to have either:

An undergraduate degree in a field relevant to public health or health management (see list below)* and two years full-time professional or volunteer experience. This may also include equivalent professional experience acquired as part of a degree of 4 or more years duration (e.g. MBBS, MD)

OR

An undergraduate degree plus an honours or postgraduate degree in a field relevant to public health or health management (see list below)*

[*Examples include, but are not restricted to, medicine, nursing, allied health, health sciences, biomedical sciences, dentistry, sociology, behavioural and social sciences, social work, psychology, marketing, human services, emergency services, environmental health, veterinary science, health administration, business, management, engineering, law, science, mathematics and statistics, economics, policy studies and development studies.]

Applications will be assessed in accordance with the UNSW Recognition of Prior Learning Policy and Procedure.

Application Procedure

For Australian citizens, permanent residents and New Zealand citizens, applications for postgraduate coursework programs at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine are online through the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC).

For international students, applications for postgraduate coursework programs at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine are online through UNSW Apply Online.

Please contact the Student Services office for further information postgrad-sphcm@unsw.edu.au

1.Ability to integrate advanced knowledge and skills for protection of the health of populations and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases through the use of epidemiological methods and contemporary theories and techniques;

2.Appraise the health promotion needs of populations and determine effective interventions drawing on contemporary approaches and evidence;

3.Critically analyse health care systems and policy contexts in order to develop evidence informed health management strategies drawing on recent scholarship and contemporary approaches to organisational practice in health settings;

4.Appraise health service needs and apply evidence informed approaches for determining productive strategies, policies and management of resources drawing on contemporary disciplinary domains, theories and techniques (including multilevel systems analysis, health finance and economics, and health workforce leadership and development);

5.Demonstrate sophisticated capabilities for leading and managing in complex health settings including the capacity for improving health service outcomes through research driven and evidence based risk management and clinical governance quality processes;

6.Investigate and apply relevant research and research-based methods to inform public health and health services questions, priorities, policies and practice across a diverse set of contexts;

7.Investigate, analyse and synthesise health service and population health-related data and issues to plan and evaluate strategies, policies, projects and programs informed by current theoretical debates, techniques and practices;

8.Demonstrate multidisciplinary ways of working and high level skills in leading, communicating, working in teams and advocacy to enhance health service outcomes;

9.Demonstrate sophisticated cultural awareness and a global perspective for working productively as health service professionals in local, national and international settings;

10.Demonstrate capacity to abide by legal requirements and ethical commitments within one's scope of professional responsibility and engage in scholarly inquiry and critical reflection for informing health leadership and managerial practice.

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