Master of Public Health (Health Promotion)
Master of Public Health (Health Promotion)
Highlights Ideal for career change, professional advancement, and clinicians looking to expand their skills. Specialise in emergency and disaster management, health promotion, health services management, epidemiology and research methods, or health, safety and environment. Graduate with an internationally recognised qualification. Choose to combine your coursework with a project or dissertation….
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Highlights
Ideal for career change, professional advancement, and clinicians looking to expand their skills.
Specialise in emergency and disaster management, health promotion, health services management, epidemiology and research methods, or health, safety and environment.
Graduate with an internationally recognised qualification.
Choose to combine your coursework with a project or dissertation.
Public health professionals promote population health and wellbeing in service areas such as food safety, disease control, prevention programs, health promotion and environmental health.
Our 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.
Careers and outcomes
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:
planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion programs
informing and working collaboratively with other health professionals on population health issues
designing, developing and implementing public information campaigns using radio, television, newspapers, pamphlets, posters and websites.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Study at The University of Queensland. Learn with leading academics in world-class facilities and join the most employable graduates in the state. At UQ you’ll benefit from flexible study options, field trips, lab work, industry placements, research experience, and online study in Brisbane, Australia.
