Master of Global Public Health

Program Overview

Griffith University's Master of Global Public Health program equips students with the knowledge and skills to address global health challenges. It emphasizes the socio-ecological model of public health, focusing on the interactions between social, biological, economic, and environmental determinants of health. The program offers a flexible duration and delivery options, including full-time, part-time, and online, and prepares graduates for careers in public health practice, research, and management.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Master of Global Public Health program at Griffith University aims to develop and further your career in public health practice, research, and/or management. It allows you to re-orient your work interests in health to disease prevention and health promotion. The program focuses on the socio-ecological model of public health, which emphasizes and analyzes the important interactions between the social, biological, economic, and environmental determinants of health. This will enable you to apply analytical skill sets to plan, implement, and evaluate population-based interventions that protect and promote health. The program has a strong focus on global health and provides you with the opportunity to focus your public health studies by selecting from a range of electives in areas such as public health nutrition, health promotion, climate change, international health, environmental health, and health services management.

Outline:

The Master of Global Public Health program offers a variety of different durations depending on your previous studies:

• 2 years full-time, or part-time equivalent, if you have a Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
• 1.5 years full-time, or part-time equivalent (with 40 credit points of advanced standing or credit), if you have a Graduate Certificate in a related discipline.

Year 1

Core Courses

• Global Health Systems (10 credit points)
• Environment and Population Health (10 credit points)
• Epidemiology: Principles and Practices (10 credit points)
• Global Health, Equity and Human Rights (10 credit points)
• Social Determinants of Health (10 credit points)
• Health Program Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (10 credit points)
• Applied Field Methods in Public Health (10 credit points)
• Global Health: Priorities and Interventions (10 credit points)
Elective Courses
• Public Health Practice (20 credit points)
• Listed electives (60 credit points)

Year 2

Dissertation pathway

• Dissertation - 8010MED_P1 (10 credit points)
• Dissertation - 8010MED_P2 (10 credit points)
• Dissertation - 8010MED_P3 (10 credit points)
• Dissertation - 8010MED_P4 (10 credit points)
• Listed electives (20 credit points)
Coursework Pathway
• Public Health Practice (20 credit points)

Teaching:

The Master of Global Public Health is offered full-time, fully online, and on-campus (at the Gold Coast campus). As a full-time student, you will generally attend 12 hours of scheduled classes per week throughout the trimester. The Master of Global Public Health is also offered fully online. You can access course materials, participate in learning activities, lodge assessment items, and access support services via Learning@Griffith. There is no requirement for on-campus attendance, and access to a reliable computer with an internet connection is essential.

Careers:

There are diverse career opportunities for professionals interested in moving into the public health field, developing health research skills, and/or furthering competency development in public health practice areas such as:

• International health
• Humanitarian aid
• Health program planning and evaluation
• Health promotion
• Health policy
• Epidemiology and biostatistics
• Environmental health management
• Maternal and child health
• Public health nutrition.
You will be prepared for a variety of career opportunities with state and federal health departments, in public health units/teams, community health, local government, and academia. Public health graduates are also highly sought after by NGO health agencies and international aid agencies.