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Total subjects
4
Price
$10,100
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Australia’s fourth oldest university, the University of Tasmania, is highly regarded internationally for teaching and academic excellence. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and more than 50 postgraduate programs across a range of disciplines. The university offers students a diverse range of opportunities, the chance to learn from leading experts, and excellent preparation for their future careers.
QS RANKING 2021
19
Times Higher Education Ranking 2021
25
Degree structure
Degree details
Upon completion of this program, students should be able to:
- Source, assess, analyse and communicate public health intelligence to inform decision making about public health action
- Evaluate interventions and systems to detect, prevent and control communicable and noncommunicable diseases among human populations, including in public health emergencies
- Evaluate health promoting interventions and systems that build capacity in populations to address social, economic, cultural and physical determinants of health.
- Demonstrate professional conduct in public health practice, that includes a commitment to reducing health inequity and culturally competent, ethical, collaborative and evidence-based practice that builds capacity for public health action.
The program aims to empower students as practitioners who can address public health challenges via public health practice that is culturally competent, collaborative, evidence-based and builds capacity for public health action. This program is relevant to those who work within public health as well as those wanting to move into the field of public health.
Professional recognition
The Public Health curriculum is benchmarked against competency standards articulated by the Council of Public Health Institutions in Australasia (CAPHIA), the Royal Australian College of Physicians Faculty of Public Health Medicine and The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (USA).
Higher education
The College of Health and Medicine may accept as a candidate for the Graduate Certificate of
Public Health a person who:
- Has completed an undergraduate degree from an Australian university, or
- AQF7 level or the equivalent standard in any other institution.
The Graduate Certificate in Public Health program develops foundation competencies required for effective public health practice in Australia and globally. It encourages students to think broadly about the factors that affect health and wellbeing including social, environmental, cultural, economic, political and structural determinants.
Recommended Study Pattern
For students undertaking full-time study the following study pattern is recommended.
Year 1. 4 subjects in first year including:
- TAS-CAM520 Global Health Systems
- TAS-CAM528 Introduction to Epidemiology
- TAS-CAM529 Introduction to Public Health
- TAS-CAM618 Evaluating Health Interventions
Award Requirements
Satisfactory completion of 4 subjects, as required in the schedule, within 2 years from commencement.
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