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The Master of Public Health/Master Global Health (MPH/MGH) is an innovative approach to postgraduate health education. Through this dual program, students develop knowledge and skills required to work across diverse global health settings and contexts, including Australia. The program is designed to meet the continuing education needs of current and aspiring leaders in public and global health. It meets a well-recognised need to strengthen public health capacities in Australia and internationally.

Through the MPH/MGH program, students cultivate sophisticated knowledge and skills in public health that can be applied to a broad range of highly complex population health issues in local and global settings. You will gain core public health skills including epidemiology, biostatistics, health promotion, health policy planning and management and those required to address the challenges of the social determinants of health. This is complemented with the capacity to draw on interdisciplinary knowledge and research to address global health challenges, including the politics of global health, globalisation, decolonisation, human rights, and the environment. The program fosters judgement-ready, critically reflexive practitioners who can contribute to improving public health outcomes in diverse settings, drawing on a global health perspective.

Our students are taught by our experienced, multidisciplinary team of research-active academics, who work across the Asia-Pacific and sub-Saharan African regions and beyond. Graduates typically find work through a range of employers in Australia and globally, including bilateral and multilateral international aid organisations, UN-based organisations, civil society and other NGOs, private foundations, health departments, academia, and development-based organisations.