Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health
Public Health
A course by
AUT
Advance your skills in promoting health, tackling health inequities, and addressing the wide-ranging challenges that affect community wellbeing with AUT's Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health.
Blended study
This is a mix of online learning & face-to-face sessions
Available in 3 locations
It will take a total of 1 year
Core skills this course teaches
Address community health challenges
Graduates will be able to address public health challenges in diverse contexts and communities through evidence-based approaches.
Promote health equity
Demonstrate an understanding of strategies to tackle health inequities arising from social, economic, and environmental determinants.
Public Health leadership and management
Develop skills in managing, designing, and evaluating public health policies, programmes, and interventions.
What You're Signing Up For
The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health at Auckland University of Technology prepares graduates to manage current and future public health risks within diverse contexts and communities. It provides a strong grounding in the principles of public health, social epidemiology, public health policy, Māori development, and offers breadth through a wide variety of electives covering disaster risk management, digital health, health leadership, ethics, law, and research skills. The programme is committed to equity, social justice, empowerment, and community partnership.
Course Content
- Principles of Public Health
- Social Epidemiology
- Public Health Policy and Systems
- Te Hau o te Ora Hauora Māori Development
- Violence and Trauma: Theories and Perspectives
- Optimising Practice in Violence and Trauma
- Communications in Emergency and Disaster
- Disasters and Development
- Disability and Health
- Quantitative and Qualitative Research
- Research Design and Methods
- Leadership and Management in Health
- Critical Inquiry for Evidence Based Practice
- Exponential Health Technologies
- Digital Health Disruption
- Pacific Health Research and Design
- Measuring Health and Well-being
- Environmental Change and Humanitarian Action
- Building Community Resilience
- Advanced Epidemiology
- Environment, Hazards and Society
- Health Professional Practice
- Practice Reality
- Applied Health Care Ethics
- Health Law
- Māori Health Research Practice
- Enhancing Social Participation in Mental Health
- Public Health Programme Management
- Global Health
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Public Health
Health Promotion
Health Policy
Epidemiology
Community Development
Future employment opportunities might be
Public health officer