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Graduate Diploma of Public Health
PostgraduateUSQ-PHL-GDI2024
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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
- 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 utilize 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 behavioral, 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
Year 1
PUH8010 Integrated Public Health Core A
PUH8030 Public Health in Practice A (Case-based Learning)
HSC6050 Research Methodology for Human Sciences
PUH8020 Integrated Public Health Core B
HEA6302 Culture as Determinant of Health
1 x ElectiveAward requirements
Completion of 8 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Public HealthOpen Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative total fee $9,848
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; or completed UniSQ's Graduate Certificate of Public Health with a 4.8 GPA or higher. 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