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This multidisciplinary course will help you begin your public health career, where you'll work to achieve better health through the prevention of disease and disability at the community or whole population level, rather than just working with individuals.

You'll learn about how social, economic and environmental factors affect health and wellbeing, and choose from a broad range of units to begin building your public health career. This includes units focusing on big data and health, epidemiology and biostatistics, healthcare systems in Australia and health promotion planning.

Due to the range of units, this course also acts as a pathway into other health courses with more competitive admission criteria, including pharmacy, speech pathology, physiotherapy or occupational therapy.

Choose your specialisation

There are a number of specialisations available in the third year of this course – units designed to hone your knowledge and skills in a particular area. You can choose to specialise in health data or health sciences, or select an Accelerated Bachelor Master pathway.

Health Data

In this specialisation, you'll learn how to analyse big data to reveal patterns and trends, and learn about data capture, cyber security, data visualisation and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used in health. You'll also grow your interpretive and decision-making skills and know how to present your results effectively to different audiences.

Health Sciences

This specialisation lets you combine studies in public health disciplines including health promotion, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health, occupational health and safety, and global public health administration with a range of optional units. Career outcomes are diverse and you'll be able to tailor your learning to suit the healthcare career of your choice.

Accelerated Master Degree Pathway

In this pathway you'll complete four units from a master degree in your third year, and continue on with the master degree in your fourth year. The time taken to complete an Accelerated Bachelor Master Degree is 6 months shorter than completing both degrees individually.

Specialisations available in this pathway are:

Public Health

Health Administration

Sexology

Occupational Health and Safety.

Note: You'll need a course-weighted average of 60 or higher after completing 300 credit points to qualify for this pathway.

What jobs can the Health Sciences lead to?

Careers

Administrative officer

Community development officer

Data management officer

Policy officer

Project officer

Research officer

Industries

Health research

Local and state government

Non-government organisations

What you'll learn

Apply discipline knowledge, understand its theoretical underpinnings and ways of thinking; extend the boundaries of knowledge through research

Apply logical and rational processes to analyse the components of an issue; think creatively to generate innovative solutions

Decide what information is needed and where it might be found using appropriate technologies; make valid judgements and synthesise information from a range of sources

Communicate in ways appropriate to the discipline, audience and purpose

Use appropriate technologies recognising their advantages and limitations

Use a range of learning strategies; take responsibility for one's own learning and development; sustain intellectual curiosity; know how to continue to learn as a graduate

Think globally and consider issues from a variety of perspectives; apply international standards and practices within a discipline or professional area