Graduate Diploma of Public Health

The Graduate Diploma of Public Health is part of the CQUniversity suite of Public Health courses It continues the application of a socialecological model of health to public health education This model which is strongly aligned with contemporary trends and challenges in public health provides the basis for innovative interventions for social change Unlike other Public Health courses that traditionally focus on the medical model of health the Graduate Diploma of Public Health at CQUniversity will also incorporate a social perspective of public health skills knowledge and practice The Graduate Diploma of Public Health has more depth of content than the Graduate Certificate in Public Health and includes a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary opportunity to combine your public health studies with another field of studyThis innovative course will explore the origins and evolution of public health and the underlying principles of communitybased and communityled public health The socialecological model of health forms the basis of the Graduate Diploma in Public Health You will be introduced to complex adaptive systems thinking and how this influences how we think about public healthThis approach reflects contemporary trends in public health and provides the basis of innovative interventions for social change You will undertake units that outline the origins and evolution of public health and the underlying principles of communitybased and communityled public health You will explore fundamental concepts associated with these principles including complex adaptive systems thinking social and environmental determinants of health social epidemiology social justice partnership development and participatory research You will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in practical ways in both strengthsbased and diseaseprevention approaches

A 3 yearAustralian Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification inAny discipline fromA recognised tertiary institution.