Master of Public Health

This Monash Master of Public Health, offered by the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, provides the full range of quantitative, analytical and communication skills necessary to work and provide leadership in the broad domain of public health. It also provides skills in the quantitative methods of the population-based health sciences and their problem-solving application for public health and primary care provision within Australia and developing countries.

You will learn, integrate and apply core knowledge and skills in public health in the core units of epidemiology, biostatistics, research methods and principles and practice and challenges of public health. You will also be able to choose an elective study program from a wide range of units to give you depth of understanding within your study program according to your career interests. To guide you in developing your elective study program, with depth for career development and interests, you are able to choose from the following specialisations: Epidemiology; Global and planetary health; Health economics; Health policy; Health promotion; Research or General stream.

The course offers you the opportunity to integrate and extend the knowledge and skills gained in your course through a capstone experience, as a professional practice development unit. There is also the opportunity to undertake a research project or case study (consultation with the course research project coordinator is required prior to enrolment in research units).

The course structure and flexibility assists you to extend, integrate and apply their core knowledge and skills with depth in key areas of interest according to your background and career development interests, something that employers have identified as important, and to gain knowledge and skills in new areas across the broad domain of public health to equip you for future challenges.

IMPORTANT: This course is only available to international students in ‘on-campus’ mode. Please note that ‘on-campus’ mode comprises a mix of online learning and on-site teaching.

For most units, the majority of contact hours are facilitated through the University’s online learning platform, with additional face-to-face contact during designated study days at the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine or at the Alfred Centre in Melbourne.

SPECIALISATIONS AVAILABLE

• Public health
• Epidemiology
• Health promotion
• Health policy
• Health economics
• Global and planetary health
• Research*

*NOTE: The Research specialisation is not available at entry level 3.