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MPH5203Environmental influences on health

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Environmental influences on health including physical, chemical and biological hazards as well as principles of assessment, management and control of environmental health risks.

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

MPH5283Ethics, good research practice and practical research methods

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

This unit will provide you with the practical knowledge required to plan and undertake a clinical research project with close attention to the highest standards of ethics and Good Research Practice. You will also gain detailed knowledge in...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

MPH5022Evaluating public health programs

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Program evaluation is important for measuring the effect of public health programs and determining their influence on longer-term health outcomes. It also provides valuable evidence to improve the delivery, reach and impact of public...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

MPH5268Financial management in health care

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society, however with people living longer and community expectations of and demand for healthcare increasing at an unprecedented rate, the financial costs of...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5269Foundations of health policy

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Delivery of health services is underpinned by a framework of health policies and other health system elements. Health professional leaders and managers, and those who aspire to these roles, need to know about these policies and about the...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5002Foundations of health promotion and program planning

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

This unit introduces you to key principles of, and planning for, health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5252Global health care delivery: principles and challenges

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

In this unit you will explore global health through a real-world lens. In today’s fast-changing, interconnected world, understanding global health is more important—and more complex—than ever. In this unit you will be invited to explore...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5255Health and human rights

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

This unit examines the interrelationship between public health and human rights. It begins by providing an overview of the development, content and application of human rights. Human rights aspects of contemporary local and international...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5222Health and safety risk management leadership and governance

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

In this unit you will undertake a comprehensive exploration of core Health and Safety risk management concepts, risk assessment techniques, and decision-making processes. You will gain a deep understanding of the principles, framework, and...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

EPM5031Health data analytics project

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

This unit will involve you completing a practical project concerning a real-life health data analytics research problem. You will be supervised by an analytics expert and guided through the design, formulation of an analysis plan, conduct...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

EPM5001Health indicators and health surveys

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Introduction to a variety of health-related data collection sources, calculation of population fertility, mortality & morbidity rates, health service utilisation measures, disease registration & reporting. Use of direct & indirect age...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

HSC4100Health Science research project

UnitLevel 4|36 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

You will undertake a supervised research project involving research of a high standard which forms the basis of a thesis presented at the end of the year. As part of the unit you will present seminars on your research, and are trained in...

Full yearAlfred HospitalMalaysia

EPM5030Human health and disease processes

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

In this unit you will explore common diseases from pathophysiological, psychosocial, and epidemiological perspectives. You will learn about the course of a disease, and contributing and risk factors at the individual and social levels, as...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5244Humans, work and physical hazards

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

This unit introduces physical hazards including noise, vibration, heat, cold, radiation and pressure effects and conditions such as work-related musculoskeletal disorders that are common in workplaces, the effects on human health, and...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

MPH5271Implementation and innovation in health care

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

In this unit you will examine the organisation of health care systems and the strategic approaches required to lead improvement and innovation. You will critically analyse system structures and apply relevant change management and...

Semester 1Alfred Hospital

MPH5218Infectious diseases: Epidemiology and prevention

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Importance of transmission source, host and organism factors in infectious disease epidemiology. Outbreak investigation, surveillance of infectious diseases, prevention/control strategies, mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

MPH5256Injury epidemiology and prevention

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

This unit will cover the principles of injury epidemiology, prevention and control. The unit will provide an introduction to the injury epidemiology and prevention field with a particular focus on issues facing injury surveillance,...

Alfred Hospital

TRM5001Introduction to clinical trials

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Successful clinical research is conducted under the guise of a well-constructed study question that is feasible, interesting, novel, ethical and relevant. A study design must be conceived with appropriate measures of clinical observation...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

TRM6001Introduction to clinical trials

UnitLevel 6|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Successful clinical research is conducted with a well-constructed study question that is feasible, interesting, novel, ethical and relevant. A study design must be conceived with appropriate measures of clinical observation and...

Semester 2Alfred Hospital

MPH5020Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Differences between descriptive & analytical epidemiology, strengths & weaknesses of different epidemiological study design & basic concepts & methods of biostatistics including confidence intervals, p-values & sample size, statistical...

Semester 1Semester 2Alfred Hospital