Master of Public Health
Master of Public Health
Prepare for a role as a public health professional and enjoy a rewarding career where you’ll make a difference to people’s health outcomes across the community and workplace. Public health focuses on preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting healthy lifestyles. It offers a rewarding career that suits people from a…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prepare for a role as a public health professional and enjoy a rewarding career where you’ll make a difference to people’s health outcomes across the community and workplace.
Public health focuses on preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting healthy lifestyles. It offers a rewarding career that suits people from a variety of backgrounds including health, science, education and the social sciences.
The Master in Public Health is a 1.5-year program that will give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to influence and inform health policy and lead health services reform. You’ll learn how to act on new developments regarding health concerns, such as COVID-19, diabetes, obesity, HIV/AIDS and injury prevention, as well as more traditional concerns such as under-nutrition and communicable diseases.
You’ll complete a program that is evidence-based, comprehensive, and reflects UQ’s strong links with organisations such as Australian Aid, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and international ministries of health.
As part of your program, you’ll complete a research project on a specific topic or problem relevant to public health. You’ll be involved in all aspects of research, from defining a topic and methodology to interpreting results and reporting on your findings.
You’ll choose a field of study from 6 different options. In each field, you’ll complete a range of core courses, specialist courses, and electives, to build and extend your knowledge.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
Within the field of Public Health, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use is associated with a significant burden of illness and injury in populations around the globe.
In addition, individuals, families and communities experience adverse social harms arising from specific patterns of intoxication, modes of drug use and illicit drug markets.
Through this plan, you’ll learn about substance use and misuse and the harm caused to individuals and communities. You’ll also study effective tools for assessment and interventions of misuse.
REQUIREMENTS
To be eligible for entry, you’ll need:
a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (see below), or
a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline, plus 1 year, full-time equivalent relevant work experience in a healthcare setting; or
a graduate certificate or graduate diploma (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (see below).
You must have a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 on a 7-point scale in your previous qualification.
English language requirements
IELTS overall 6.5; reading 6; writing 6; speaking 6; listening 6. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ
TOEFL iBT (including Paper Edition) – Overall 87, listening 19, reading 19, writing 21 and speaking 19.
PTE Academic – Overall Score of 64 and 60 in all sub bands.
BE – A minimum overall grade of 4 plus a minimum grade of C in all macro skills.
CES – Overall 176 and 169 in all sub bands.
OET is not accepted.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of Queensland (UQ) is in the world’s top 50 universities. It is internationally renowned for its academic excellence and is the winner of more national teaching awards than any other Australian university. UQ is a member of the Universities 21 and a founding member of the Group of Eight (Go8) universities and a member of Universities Australia. UQ is a multicultural hub home to nearly 20,200 international students from 142 countries. Based in Brisbane, UQ has three campuses with advanced facilities and centres to support its students.
