Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health

Graduate Diploma

This course is not currently accepting applications. If you are interested in studying this course, please express interest and we'll be in touch when applications are open again. Be the frontline of health protection in your community, become an Environmental Health Officer.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Diploma

Duration

1 - 4 years full-time

Course Code

M6Q

About this course

This course is not currently accepting applications. If you are interested in studying this course, please express interest and we'll be in touch when applications are open again.

Be the frontline of health protection in your community, become an Environmental Health Officer.

The Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health provides you with a pathway into professional practice, and will equip you to work at the front line of health protection, assessing environmental health risks and combat a range of environmental public health challenges including food safety, pollution, climate change and the prevention of communicable diseases.

Whilst primarily based in Hobart, the course has a whole of Tasmania focus, Developed in partnership with industry and the profession, this course provides a pathway to further study into the Master of Public Health. This ensures that graduates are practice-ready and have strong links with practitioners, employers and systems that address environmental health and able to progress to relevant further study in public health.

If you have a passion for science, health and environment and like working outdoors and with people, this course is for you. It is a pathway to a career not just a job.

Entry requirements

This course is not currently accepting applications.

To be eligible for an offer, an applicant will have:

A completed recognised bachelor degree (AQF7) (or higher award) in a health or science discipline; and
In addition, all applicants will have completed a minimum of 50 credit points (equivalent of one semester full-time study) of recognised basic science units that
- Were studied at Bachelor level or higher (AQF7 of higher), and
- Include a minimum of 12.5 credit points (one unit or equivalent) of chemistry; and
- Include a further 37.5 credit points (three units or equivalent) in science areas (e.g. microbiology, physics, anatomy and physiology, life science).
- These units do not have to be part of the completed Bachelor degree.

SAFETY IN PRACTICE REQUIREMENTS

This course includes compulsory Professional Experience Placements. You must meet the College of Health and Medicine's Safety in Practice Requirements before census date of the first semester of your course. The safety in practice requirements are completed separately to the course admission application.

This course is not available to international students. Please enquire online for advice on alternative course options.

What you will learn

1 Apply underpinning knowledge and skills to contemporary environmental health practice including the assessment and management of the impact of the built and natural environment on public health

2 Source, critically analyse, consolidate and synthesize complex information relevant to environmental health from a range of sources

3 Communicate complex knowledge and ideas relevant to environmental health practice in oral and written forms

4 Apply risk management frameworks to the assessment, management and prevention of contemporary environmental health challenges

5 Design, plan, implement and evaluate environmental health interventions

6 Conduct environmental health practice in a legal, ethical, sustainable and culturally safe manner

Career pathways

Professional Accreditation

The Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health is a professionally accredited degree. Provisional accreditation has been granted for this course by Environmental Health Australia (EHA).

In line with EHA requirements, the University will seek full accreditation once a sufficient number of students have graduated from this course.

Graduates may meet the requirements for membership of EHA as an Environmental Health Officer. There may be additional requirements for membership beyond the completion of the course. For further membership requirements, please visit the Environmental Health Australia website.

If you have any queries about the accreditation process, please contact us for further information.