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Graduate Certificate of Public Health
PostgraduateUSQ-GPH-GCE2024
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Explore careers in healthcare promoting health and wellbeing
A postgraduate health course to build your skills and knowledge. You’ll explore public health challenges like an ageing population. Get to know the tools of public health, including health monitoring, promotion, policy, and systems.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 6 months full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 4
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Graduate Certificate 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 utilize skills and theoretical knowledge to evaluate and communicate health information.
- Select relevant health promotion and health protection concepts to promote population health through mediating, advocating, and enabling changes in behavioral, social, economic, cultural, and physical environments.
- Help shape and improve our population’s health by studying postgraduate courses in public health. Build a rewarding career by learning to develop and evaluate health programs for communities to promote health and wellbeing and manage causes of health – including biological, social, and environmental. UniSQ’s Graduate Certificate of Public Health offers case-based learning and an integrated approach to teaching five main public health disciplines: biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health, health policy and management, and social and behavioural science. Delivered online, you can study while making an impact and applying specialised skills in your current role.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
PUH8010 Integrated Public Health Core A
PUH8030 Public Health in Practice A (Case-based Learning)
1 x ElectiveAward requirements
Completion of 4 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Open Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative total fee $4,470
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
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
Entry requirements
- Completed a 3-year or 4-year bachelor degree, or equivalent, in the area of health with a 4.8 GPA or higher; or completed a 3-year or 4-year bachelor degree, or equivalent, in a different discipline with a 4.8 GPA or higher, and completed 1 year of full-time work experience in a healthcare setting. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- 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
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Health and Welfare Services Managers | Over $120K | Up 56.6% |
Health Promotion Officers | N/A^ | Up 44% |
Policy and Planning Managers | Over $120K | Up 53.8% |
^ There is no data available