CL45 Master of Public Health

In order to complete this course, you must:

  1. Complete the core structure
  2. Complete electives

Core Structure

Number of units: 11 Total credit points: 66

It is recommended students undertake the first eight core public health units before commencing the elective units.

The following units are compulsory:

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
PBHL20001 Understanding Public Health
PBHL20002 Systems Thinking in Public Health
PBHL20003 Epidemiology and Statistics
PBHL20005 Global Public Health
PBHL20009 Health and Wellbeing in the Cross-Cultural Community
DSMG28001 Foundations of Emergency and Disaster Management
PBHL29002 Communicable Diseases
PBHL20010 Public Health Practice in the Cross-Cultural Community
PBHL29001 Social Innovation and Health: Human-Centred Design Thinking
PBHL28001 Environmental Health
PBHL29003 Non-communicable Diseases

Electives- level 8 Elective

Number of units: 2 Total credit points: 12

You will need to choose a combination of units totaling 12 credit points from the list of level- 8 electives to make up the required credit points for the course. Consideration should be given to the campus, term of offering and possible exit/interim awards.

You must complete 12 credit points from the following list.

Available units
Students may choose to do any of the following:
COMM20110 Crisis Communication
DSMG20003 Research for Emergency and Disaster Management
SAFE20011 Exposures and Health Risk
SAFE20017 Human Factors in Complex Systems
SAFE20018 Fatigue Risk Management
PSYC20037 Introduction to Positive Psychology: Perspectives on Wellbeing
PSYC20038 Positive Psychology: Research Methods
PSYC20039 Inter-disciplinary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Wellbeing
PSYC20040 Wellbeing Initiatives: Local and Global Scales
PSYC20042 Building Wellbeing and Resilience: Interconnected Factors
SAFE28003 Safety in Complexity
SAFE28001 Safety Regulation and Management
SAFE28002 Psychosocial Hazard Management
PMSC28004 Fundamentals of Counter-terrorism and Operational Medicine

Electives- level 9 Elective

Number of units: 3 Total credit points: 18

You will need to choose a combination of units totaling 18 credit points from the list of level- 9 electives to make up the required credit points for the course. Consideration should be given to the campus, term of offering and possible exit/interim awards.

You must complete three units from the following list.

Available units
Students may choose to do any of the following:
DSMG29001 Disaster Risk Reduction
DSMG29002 Leadership in Emergency and Disaster Management
DSMG29003 Building Adaptive Capacity in Communities
DSMG29005 Community Safety and Education
DSMG29006 Volunteerism and the Community
PMSC29001 Transition to Practice
PMSC29002 Human Performance Optimisation in Complex Environments
PSYC29001 Applied Positive Psychology
SAFE29001 Hazard Management and Risk Control