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The two-year Master of Public Health (Extension) / Master of Global Health is an innovative approach to postgraduate health education. Through this dual extension 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 health and global health and meets a well-recognised need to strengthen public health capacities within Australia and internationally. The MPHext gives you the opportunity to extend your knowledge and skills in public health by completing additional research methodology courses and/or an advanced research project in a public health-related topic.

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 equipped with 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 by 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 research component supports scholarly, evidence-based professional practice in roles that involve developing, evaluating and undertaking research aimed at improving population health outcomes. 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 and supported by scholarly evidence-based professional practice in public health.

You will be taught by 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 government Ministries and Departments of Health, bilateral and multilateral international aid organisations, civil society and other non-government organisations, academia, primary care and community healthcare services in the public and private sectors in Australia and internationally.