Graduate Certificate
The Graduate Certificate in Aboriginal Health in Rural Communities empowers students to make a difference in Aboriginal health, focusing on rural communities. It combines Aboriginal and Western health perspectives, practical skills, and community-based projects.
The Graduate Certificate in Aboriginal Health in Rural Communities is designed to help you understand health in a holistic way. You'll explore how both Aboriginal and Western ways of knowing about health apply within Aboriginal communities, and how broader social factors shape health experiences. You'll delve into how Aboriginal and Western health knowledge systems interact within Aboriginal health services. You'll learn how historical events, social and cultural processes, and power dynamics impact the health journeys of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians. This course includes a hands-on, community-based project within an Aboriginal health setting, allowing you to gain practical skills.
The Graduate Certificate in Aboriginal Health in Rural Communities is designed to help you understand health in a holistic way. You'll explore how both Aboriginal and Western ways of knowing about health apply within Aboriginal communities, and how broader social factors shape health experiences. You'll delve into how Aboriginal and Western health knowledge systems interact within Aboriginal health services. You'll learn how historical events, social and cultural processes, and power dynamics impact the health journeys of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians. This course includes a hands-on, community-based project within an Aboriginal health setting, allowing you to gain practical skills.
The course is delivered in a blend of online learning and in-person intensives. In Year 1 you will complete two compulsory subjects through the Department of Rural Health (more details: Specialist Certificate in Empowering Health in Indigenous Communities). For these subjects, you'll attend a one-week on-campus teaching intensive at our Shepparton Campus, allowing you to spend your time in the community, supported by online tutorials and individualised assistance.
You then choose two elective subjects from the Master of Public Health program through the School of Population and Global Health. These electives will explore how historical, social, and cultural processes, as well as power dynamics, shape health experiences and outcomes.