Graduate Diploma
You must have a recognised bachelor degree (or higher qualification) in any discipline.
A completed recognised bachelor degree in any discipline.
Public health professionals promote population health and wellbeing in service areas such as food safety disease control prevention programs health promotion and environmental health.
QUT's public health programs are designed for professionals interested in a career in public health mid-career professionals seeking advancement and clinicians looking to broaden their range of expertise.
Students obtain core skills in epidemiology and biostatistics and an understanding of contemporary and challenging population health issues. You may choose to complete specialist study in emergency and disaster management; epidemiology and research methods; health promotion; health services management; health safety and environment; or select units from more than one study area.
Health promotion is focused on developing policy programs and strategies that will foster and encourage healthy equitable and sustainable environments and communities. To achieve this a health promotion practitioner is required to work with a diverse range of individuals community groups and representatives. In addition to developing population and community programs interventions can also be implemented in specific settings such as schools workplaces and hospitals.
Currently a key focus is the development of effective programs that address a number of national and state health priority areas including physical activity alcohol tobacco and other drugs mental health promotion injury prevention and skin cancer prevention. An integral component to being an effective health promotion practitioner is to be involved in the facilitation and development of effective partnerships with government and non-government agencies to collaboratively address health issues and work towards positive health outcomes.
Some of the tasks a health promotion practitioner may perform include:
With experience health promotion practitioners can progress into supervisory and managerial positions.
Graduates may find employment in the public sector in local state and federal government health departments or local community agencies such as community health and primary health care. Organisations like the National Heart Foundation Diabetes Australia and The Cancer Council provide employment opportunities.
Health promotion and public health positions are also available in a variety of professional workplaces including the police force local councils and in private industry (e.g. medical insurance companies corporate health companies and health promotion consultants).
For those interested in social welfare graduates have been employed by government departments and international health aid organisations such as World Health Organisation and the Australian Agency for International Development and Community Aid Abroad. Universities professional associations and international agencies (e.g. World Vision Greenpeace United Nations) also require the skills of public health specialists.
The Graduate Diploma consists of eight units. Students complete four core units plus four advanced elective units which may be taken from a specialist study area.
Study areasSpecialised study areas are available in the areas of:
There is also the option of completing a cross specialisation instead of a major enabling you to choose units from more than one study area (major).
* Some units are available only in internal mode.
The Graduate Diploma consists of eight units. Students complete four core units plus four advanced elective units which may be taken from a specialist study area.
Study areasSpecialised study areas are available in the areas of:
There is also the option of completing a cross specialisation instead of a major enabling you to choose units from more than one study area (major).
* Some units are available only in internal mode.