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Griffith university

This program helps students to develop and further career in public health practice, research and/or management. This course allows students to re-orientate work in health to disease prevention and health promotion and is widely recognized both nationally and internationally as the public health credential for careers in public health. These programs focus on the socio-ecological model of public health that emphasizes and analyses the important interactions between the social, biological, economic and environmental determinants of health. In this course students need to have analytical skills to plan, implement and evaluate population based interventions that protect and promote health, and provide students with the opportunity to focus your public health studies by selecting a range of electives in areas such as public health nutrition, health promotion, environmental health, and health services management.
The Public Health Association of Australia, Australian Health Promotion Association and the International Union of Health Promotion and Education recognizes graduates of this award.
Careers abound for professionals interested in moving into the public health field, developing health research skills and/or furthering competency development in public health practice areas such as environmental health management, epidemiology and biostatistics, health policy, health program planning and evaluation, health promotion, public health nutrition. Students will also have a variety of career opportunities with state and federal health departments, in public health units/teams, community health, local government, and in academia. Public health graduates are also highly sought after by NGO health agencies and international aid agencies.
A minimum score of 575 on TOEFL, an internet-based (iBT) TOEFL score of 88 (no score less than 21) or a minimum overall band score of 6.5 on IELTS (Academic) with no sub-score of less than 6.0.
12760
0.5 years full-time