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.