Infectious Diseases Control - PHCMYS9048
Stream Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
School: School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Contact: postgrad-sphcm@unsw.edu.au
Program: 9048 - International Public Health
Award(s):
Master of International Public Health (Specialisation)
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Stream Outline
The Master of International Public Health (MIPH) in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Control provides students with advanced knowledge and skills in the principles and practice of infectious diseases epidemiology and control. This stream is aimed at public health personnel who seek a career in infectious disease control in the health sector or in international health, or who wish to progress to postgraduate research in infectious diseases epidemiology.
Students must complete 48 units of credit as follows:
Stream Structure
PLUS
B. The following stream-defining course (6 units of credit)
- PHCM9782 Infectious Diseases (6 UOC)
C. Two courses (12 UOC) from recommended international health and infectious diseases electives
- PHCM9010 Community Development (6 UOC)
- PHCM9050 Immunisation Policy & Practice (6 UOC)
- PHCM9606 Reprod, Matern & Child Health (6 UOC)
- PHCM9612 Environmental Health (6 UOC)
- PHCM9622 The Global HIV Epidemic (6 UOC)
- PHCM9662 Health Aspects of Crises (6 UOC)
- PHCM9783 Com Disease Control in HE & D (6 UOC)
- PHCM9784 Tropical Disease Control (6 UOC)
- PHCM9787 Infection Prevention & Control (6 UOC)
- PHCM9788 Infect Diseases Intelligence (6 UOC)
- PHCM9789 Bioterrorism & Intelligence (6 UOC)
- PHCM9811 Social Studies of PH (6 UOC)
D. One course (6 UOC) from recommended methods electives
- PHCM9108 Program Design & Evaluation (6 UOC)
- PHCM9120 Qualitative Research Methods (6 UOC)
- PHCM9132 Applied Research Methods: PH (6 UOC)
- PHCM9440 Economic Evaluation in HC (6 UOC)
- PHCM9443 Htl Econ & Fin for Dev. Count. (6 UOC)
- PHCM9517 Advanced Biostatistics (6 UOC)
- PHCM9518 Advanced Epidemiology (6 UOC)
- PHCM9520 Social Epidemiology (6 UOC)
- PHCM9521 Managing Data in Hlth Research (6 UOC)
- PHCM9785 Predictive modelling in PH (6 UOC)
E. One more elective (6 UOC) offered by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, a project or internship:
- PHCM9143 Internship (6 UOC)
- PHCM9148 Project (6 uoc) (6 UOC)