Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health

School of Medicine

Climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss present urgent, complex challenges to human health and to health systems. This new Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health equips you with the essential public health skills and specialised knowledge to create system-level change within society to tackle the issues affecting the health of populations. It is offered fully online and part-time.

The Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health is made up of three nested Programs. Upon completion of the courses for the Graduate Certificate, you progress to the Graduate Diploma and then to the Master-level award.

You will become competent in addressing contemporary public health issues and the challenges that climate change and environmental degradation pose to health and healthcare systems.

If you are interested in public health or health service delivery and want to shape an equitable, sustainable and healthy future, this degree will equip you with the skills that you need. The program is ideal for Australian and New Zealand university graduates who are interested in:

• a career in public health
• assisting with implementing environmental sustainability plans in the health sector, and/or
• working in non-government and industry organisations seeking to align their business with broader public health and environmental sustainability requirements.

The Master's program prepares graduates for a broad range of public health and health service management roles and can be applied in a wide range of professions.

The Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health equips graduates with the specialised knowledge, skills and attributes to examine and improve the health outcomes of populations. You will be able to describe and analyse health issues, develop ethical, evidence-based solutions and plan and deliver a range of public health interventions to effect necessary change. The program examines how climate change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss present new, rapidly evolving challenges to human health and health systems, including the emergence of new patterns of disease. You will critically appraise the provision of environmentally sustainable health care and become an informed advocate for strategic interventions addressing the health effects of climate change and environmental degradation. The program prepares graduates to become involved in system level change within society to tackle contemporary issues affecting the health of populations.

You will complete twelve compulsory courses worth a total of 300 units of credit. These are listed below:

Graduate Certificate in Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health

• Contemporary Issues in Public Health and an Introduction to Systems Thinking
• Scientific Literacy and Communication
• Foundations of Epidemiology and an Introduction to Biostatistics
• Environmental Sustainability and Health Care Systems.

Graduate Diploma of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health

• Health Promotion and Health Policy
• Organisation and Management of Health Systems
• Foundations of Biostatistics and an Introduction to Environmental Epidemiology
• Public Health Ethics.

Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health

• Communicable Diseases, One Health and Disaster Management
• Fundamentals of Qualitative Research in Health
• International Environmental Law
• Applied Systems Thinking and Professional Project Completion.

Full details of the Master's program are contained in the Program Regulations