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: 12 Total credit points: 72

For 24 credit points of the course structure, students may choose the following: 

  • Four 6cp units from the listed Electives (at least one unit must be AQF Level 8) OR
  • CL58 Graduate Certificate of Research (24 credit points) (Term 1 intake/admissions only).


Students wishing to enrol in the CL58 Graduate Certificate in Research must arrange a meeting with the Head of Course to confirm the scope of their project and an appropriate research supervisor before contacting the School of Graduate Research for enrolment. The CL58 Graduate Certificate in Research is composed of a single unit totalling 24 credit points (RSCH20003) and can be completed as a full-time or part-time enrolment.

 

The following units are compulsory:

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
PBHL20001 Understanding Public Health
PBHL20002 Systems Thinking in Public Health
PBHL28002 Research Methods for Public Health
PBHL20005 Global Public Health
DSMG28001 Foundations of Emergency and Disaster Management
PBHL20009 Health and Wellbeing in the Cross-Cultural Community
PBHL29002 Communicable Diseases
PBHL20010 Public Health Practice in the Cross-Cultural Community
PBHL29001 Social Innovation and Health: Human-Centred Design Thinking
PBHL29005 Epidemiology and Statistics
PBHL29004 Environmental Health
PBHL29003 Non-communicable Diseases

Elective- level 9 Elective

Number of units: 3 Total credit points: 18

Level 8: complete a minimum of 6cp or a maximum of 24cp of Level 8 units
Level 9: complete a maximum of 18cp of Level 9 units

Available units
Students may choose to do any of the following:
PSYC29004 Managing Workplace Mental Health
DSMG29001 Disaster Risk Reduction
DSMG29002 Leadership in Emergency and Disaster Management
DSMG29003 Building Adaptive Capacity with Communities
DSMG29005 Community Safety and Education
DSMG29006 Volunteerism and the Community
PMSC29001 Transition to Practice
PSYC29001 Applied Positive Psychology
SAFE29001 Hazard Management and Risk Control

Electives- level 8 Elective

Number of units: 1 Total credit points: 6

Level 8: complete a minimum of 6cp or a maximum of 24cp of Level 8 units
Level 9: complete a maximum of 18cp of Level 9 units

Level 8: complete a minimum of 6cp or a maximum of 24cp of Level 8 units.

Please Note: Only students being admitted into the CL45 in Term 1 can select the RSCH20003 Graduate Certificate in Research. Please contact Course Management for further information. Students wishing to enrol in the CL58 Graduate Certificate in Research must arrange a meeting with the Head of Course to review the scope of their research project proposal and an appropriate research supervisor before contacting the School of Graduate Research for enrolment. The CL58 Graduate Certificate in Research is composed of a single unit totalling 24 credit points (RSCH20003) and can be completed as a full-time enrolment or part-time.

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
PSYC20037 Introduction to Positive Psychology: Perspectives on Wellbeing
SAFE20018 Fatigue Risk Management
PSYC20038 Positive Psychology: Research Methods
PSYC20039 Inter-disciplinary and Cross-cultural Approaches to Wellbeing
PSYC20042 Building Wellbeing and Resilience: Interconnected Factors
SAFE28003 Safety in Complexity
SAFE28001 Safety Regulation and Management
PSYC29004 Managing Workplace Mental Health
SCIE28001 Rethinking Waste
SCIE28002 Water Resource Management
SCIE28003 Sustainability Issues and Solutions
RSCH20003 Graduate Certificate in Research
SAFE28002 Psychosocial Hazard Management