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Overview

The Master Public Health (MPH) program is widely recognised as essential for a career in population health, including health promotion, primary health care, policy formulation, research, and management of health programs. The MPH (Extension) program extends students' knowledge and skills in public health research by allowings candidates to undertake further … For more content click the Read More button below. The UNSW Master of Public Health (Extension) program provides students with advanced disciplinary knowledge and skills to undertake population health roles in government, community and health service settings in Australia and internationally. The program fosters sophisticated understanding and application across the complex body of multidisciplinary knowledge of public health including epidemiology, biostatistics, social determinants of health, health promotion, population targeted health research methods, and health program design, implementation and evaluation. Graduates are equipped with the specialised skills needed for research and professional practice in public health across a range of contexts including ministries and departments of health; government, non-government and voluntary organisations; primary care and community healthcare services in the public and private sectors, and in academic institutions.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Integrate advanced knowledge and skills to enable protection of the health of populations and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases through the use of epidemiological methods and contemporary theories and techniques.
2.
Appraise the health promotion needs of populations and determine effective interventions that draw on contemporary approaches and evidence.
3.
Interpret and apply relevant research and research-based methods to inform public health questions, priorities, policy and practice across a diverse set of contexts.
4.
Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex population related data and issues to plan and evaluate public health strategies, projects and programs informed by current theoretical debates, techniques and practices.
5.
Demonstrate multidisciplinary ways of working and high level skills in communicating, working in teams and advocacy to enhance public health outcomes.
6.
Demonstrate sophisticated cultural awareness and a global perspective for working productively as public health professionals in local, national and international settings.
7.
Demonstrate capacity to engage in scholarly inquiry, ethical commitment and critical reflective practice for informing professional practice in public health
8.
Identify and critically appraise research literature in an area of public health interest to determine research question/s that contribute to knowledge in the field and identify appropriate research methodologies to address these question/s.
  • Scholars
  • Leaders
  • Professionals
9.
Demonstrate ability to plan and execute a scholarly public health research-based project using relevant methodologies for contributing understanding to the field within the specific area of research.
  • Scholars
  • Leaders
  • Professionals
  • Global Citizens

Graduate Capabilities

For more information on Graduate Capabilities please click on this link

Program Structure
72 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 72 UOC as a standalone program.

1. Compulsory courses (18 UOC)
2. Prescribed elective courses (30 UOC)
3. Extension research project and elective courses (24 UOC)

Core Courses

Students must take 18 UOC of the following courses.

PHCM9012
6 UOC
Health Promotion and Social Perspectives of Health
PHCM9041
6 UOC
Foundations in Public Health and Health Care Systems
PHCM9498
6 UOC
Epidemiology and Statistics for Public Health

Specialisations

Completion of a specialisation is optional. Students may choose a maximum of one specialisations below.

PHCMSS
30 UOC
Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing
PHCMTS
30 UOC
Health Economic Evaluation
PHCMJS
30 UOC
Health Promotion
PHCMIS
30 UOC
International Health
PHCMFS
30 UOC
Infectious Diseases Control
PHCMPS
30 UOC
Primary Health Care
PHCMZS
30 UOC
Public Security
PHCMUS
30 UOC
Epidemiology
PHCMVS
30 UOC
Social Research
PHCMAS
30 UOC
Public Health
PHCMCT
30 UOC
Ageing and Health

Academic Practice: International Students

International students from non-English speaking countries enrolled in the full time program in Sydney (Kensington campus) are required to take the following additional preparatory course in their first semester. This course is available for all students to assist to gain maximum benefit from their study. The course is made available at no charge to students and does not contribute to the UOC requirements of the degree.

PHCM9100
0 UOC
Academic Practice

Prescribed Electives

Students must take at least 36 UOC, up to a maximum of 48 UOC of the following courses.

Students may also apply to the Program Director to be allowed to replace up to 12 UOC of prescribed course electives with a 6 UOC Independent Study (PHCM9103) or 6 UOC Internship (PHCM9143).

EXTENSION PROJECT AND COURSEWORK ELECTIVES

Students must take one of the following options to complete the extension component of their program (24UOC):
- 6 UOC research project and 3 additional prescribed elective courses (18 UOC); or
- 12 UOC research project and 2 additional prescribed elective courses (12UOC); or
- 18 UOC major research project and 1 additional prescribed elective course (6 UOC).

Part-time students can complete the 12 UOC Project (PHCM9144) part time by enrolling in PHCM9145 (6 UOC) in two consecutive terms or the 18 UOC Major Project (PHCM9150) by enrolling in PHCM9151 (9UOC) in two consecutive terms or PHCM9152 (6 UOC) in three consecutive terms.

PHCM9148
6 UOC
Minor Project
PHCM9150
18 UOC
Major Project
PHCM9144
12 UOC
Project

Major Project Maturity Requirement

Students must have completed 48 UOC (i.e. the MPH component) with a minimum WAM of 65 before taking any of the following courses.

PHCM9150
18 UOC
Major Project
PHCM9151
9 UOC
Major Project
PHCM9152
6 UOC
Major Project

Enrolment Disclaimer

Please note that this Handbook is a comprehensive catalogue of our offerings and includes courses that can be taken to satisfy program requirements irrespective as to their availability for a particular year. Availability of courses is best checked using filters on this site or on the class timetable site.

You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

For more information about admission requirements for various UNSW programs, visit the following website(s):
Domestic Students
International Student

Related Programs

Related Programs

Graduate Diploma in Public Health - GradDipPH5507 - Public Health
Graduate Certificate in Public Health - GradCertPH7368 - Public Health
Master of International Public Health - MIPHMaster of Public Health - MPH9043 - Int Pub Health/Pub Health
Master of Public Health - MPH9045 - Public Health
Master of Health Management - MHMMaster of Public Health - MPH9047 - Public Health/HealthManagement
Master of International Public Health (Extension) - MIPH(Extn)Master of Public Health - MPH9052 - International Public Health (Extension) / Public Health
Master of International Public Health - MIPHMaster of Public Health (Extension) - MPH(Extn)9054 - International Public Health / Public Health (Extension)
Master of Health Management - MHMMaster of Public Health (Extension) - MPH(Extn)9056 - Public Health (Extension) / Health Management
Master of Health Management (Extension) - MHM(Extn)Master of Public Health - MPH9057 - Public Health / Health Management (Extension)
Master of Infectious Diseases Intelligence - MIDIMaster of Public Health - MPH9059 - Public Health/Infectious Diseases Intelligence

Program Requirements

Progression Requirements

Pathways

Articulation Arrangements

Graduate Diploma in Public Health - GradDipPH5507 - Public Health
Graduate Certificate in Public Health - GradCertPH7368 - Public Health
Master of Public Health - MPH9045 - Public Health

Recognition of Achievement

Award with Excellence
Current Students Award with Excellence
For more information, please visit the link above.
The Award with Excellence is awarded in coursework masters programs, including Masters (Extension) but with the exception of Masters (Extended) such as JD and MD, when a Weighted Average Mean (WAM) of at least 80% has been achieved and at least 50% of the requirements of the award are completed at UNSW. All eligible programs will award 'with Excellence' except in special circumstances where approval of Academic Board has been given for a program to opt out.

Program Fees

At UNSW fees are generally charged at course level and therefore dependent upon individual enrolment and other factors such as student's residency status. For generic information on fees and additional expenses of UNSW programs, click on one of the following:

Domestic Students
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)
International Students

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