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The Master of Public Health (Extension) / Master of Health Leadership and Management (MPHext/MHLM) dual extension program is an innovative and popular two-year postgraduate qualification. The program gives you the opportunity to extend your research capacity and the ability to undertake scholarly, evidence-based practice in in public health, while also developing knowledge and skills in public health and health leadership and management.

Our dual MPHext/MHLM program fosters critically reflexive practice. Through a multi-disciplinary, problem-based approach you will graduate with the skills to improve public health outcomes and manage and improve health service systems across diverse settings. Learn the specialist knowledge and skills to recognise the relationships between public health and healthcare delivery, graduating with the capabilities to lead in increasingly complex and rapidly changing environments.

The program includes core courses related to strategic planning, policy development, change management, quality enhancement, and decision-making, coupled with core public health skills in epidemiology, biostatistics, health promotion, health policy, planning and management and addressing challenges associated with the social determinants of health.

The MPHext/MHLM combines two highly sought-after programs, with a research focused component. You will graduate work-ready, with the knowledge, skills and attributes to carry out leadership and management roles in population health, clinical settings and departmental health services. The research component supports scholarly, evidence-based professional practice in roles that involve developing, evaluating and undertaking research aimed at improving population health outcomes.

Graduates typically find employment across a range of employers, including in government Ministries and Departments of Health, NGOs, primary care and community healthcare services, hospital settings in the public and private sectors in Australia.