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Graduate Certificate in Planetary Health

  • Graduate Certificate

Build a career with impact, with the Graduate Certificate in Planetary Health, focused on crucial global and local issues. Planetary health addresses the relationship between the health of people, place and the planet, understanding that each profoundly impacts the other.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Certificate
Duration
0.5 year full-time
Course Code
VTPH
Study Mode
Online

About this course

Planetary health addresses the relationship between the health of people, place and the planet, understanding that each profoundly impacts the other.

Drawing across a range of disciplines, this course focuses on finding local solutions while sharing knowledge with communities around the world. The course encourages you to build on your knowledge in almost any field - whether community development, health or education, across sciences, business, law and politics - to take your career in a more meaningful direction. Level up for the planet!

You'll explore pressing issues including climate change and disaster response, while foregrounding First Nations knowledges and local community needs.

Graduating with practical knowledge, you'll be ready to design and apply innovative responses to issues in your workplace and community - creating healthier, fairer, more sustainable environments.

Study locations

Online

Career pathways

This course will help professionals across many fields to improve their knowledge and skills, including:

  • health professionals
  • teachers and others working in education
  • business professionals
  • community and council services workers
  • planning, building, manufacturing and farming.

Depending on your professional and study background, you might use this certificate to begin a career as one of the following:

  • environment/sustainability officer
  • occupational or environmental-health manager
  • policy analyst
  • researcher
  • educator
  • planetary health advocate
  • sustainability/social entrepreneur.

Course structure

To attain the Graduate Certificate in Planetary Health students will be required to complete:

  • 48 credit points consisting of Core units.

Credit for prior study or work

Use our credit calculator to find out how much credit you could get towards your course, based on your previous study.

If you have completed study with another university or institution and believe you are eligible to receive credit for skills and past study, you can apply for advanced standing.

Applications for advanced standing can be made after a discussion with your course chair or academic adviser.