Graduate Diploma of Public Health
Postgraduate | USQ-PHL-GDI | 2024
Unlock rewarding healthcare careers and improve community health outcomes
Explore health promotion and health protection concepts—and learn to apply them in practice. You’ll build skills and confidence working with diverse populations. Topics include health policy, health systems, and disease prevention and control.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 1 year full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 8
- Price from
- $8,948
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Graduate Diploma of Public Health
About this degree
On completion of the program, graduates should be able to:
- Critically evaluate the scope of contemporary public health practice within an interdisciplinary context.
- Function effectively as a team member including behaving in an ethical and culturally safe manner when interacting with clients, other professionals and the broader community.
- Communicate ways of working respectfully and collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities in public health practice, and culturally and linguistically diverse peoples and communities.
- Strategically utilise skills and theoretical knowledge to evaluate and communicate health information.
- Select and apply relevant health promotion and health protection concepts to promote population health through mediating, advocating, and enabling changes in behavioural, social, economic, cultural and physical environments.
- Promote efficient and equitable gains in population health by advocating appropriate policy, legislation, regulation, governance and/or fiscal measures.
Upskill with the Graduate Diploma of Public Health and contribute to public health solutions, practice and research. Study the social, behavioural, and environmental determinants of health, as well as epidemiology and different health systems. Learn to apply relevant health promotion and health protection concepts to improve population health through advocating and enabling changes in economic, cultural and physical environments. With decades of experience delivering online learning in a dynamic and supportive way, our renowned UniSQ lecturers provide transferrable skills for you to empower yourself in an ever-changing world.
Recommended study pattern
The Enrolment Pattern for this program will be updated soon. In the meantime, please submit your contact details below for us to reach out and discuss the program further.
Award requirements
Completion of 8 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Public Health (after successful completion of 4 approved courses).As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- QS Ranking 2024:
- 24
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
How to apply
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Entry requirements
Completed Bachelor Degree in the area of health or equivalent + GPA over 4.80 + English Language Proficiency OR Completion of Bachelor Degree in a different discipline + GPA over 4.80 + one year full-time work experience in a healthcare setting + English Language Proficiency
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
You may find positions in government health departments, public health teams, as well as in community health organisations and agencies. Graduates are armed with the knowledge to implement disease prevention and control, health promotion programs, health policy, planning and management (health systems), and evidence-based professional population health practice.
Career outlook
- Health and Welfare Services Managers:
- Over $120K
- Health Promotion Officers:
- Unknown average
- Policy and Planning Managers:
- Over $120K