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IntlPubHlth (Extn) / PubHlth - 9052

Program Summary

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine

Contact: School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Typical Duration: 2 Years  

Typical UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC Per Semester: 6

Max UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC For Award: 96

Award(s):

Master of International Public Health (Extension)

Master of Public Health

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Program Description
The 2-year Master International Public Health (Extension) / Master of Public Health dual program is an innovative approach to postgraduate health education enabling candidates to specialise in public health in international developing country contexts as well as Australia and other developed countries. The dual program meets a well-recognised need to strengthen public health capacities within Australia and internationally.

The Master of International Public Health (MIPH) is recognised as a sought after qualification in international health. Many graduates of MIPH or similar programs have found employment with international aid organisations. The MIPH (Extension) will provide an opportunity for high achieving students to extend their studies by completing additional courses and a research project in international public health. The Master of Public Health (MPH) 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.

Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
Graduates of the dual MIPH (Extn) / MPH program are equipped with specialised professional knowledge and skills to work in health departments, with non-government organisations, and with international and bi-lateral aid agencies both internationally and in Australia. The program cultivates sophisticated knowledge and skills in public health that can be applied to a broad range of highly complex population health issues in local and global settings including resource constrained, middle income and developed countries. Graduates acquire a complex body of multidisciplinary knowledge of public health including epidemiology, biostatistics, social determinants of health, health promotion, population health research methods, and health program and policy design, implementation and evaluation. The program fosters judgment-ready critically reflexive practitioners who are able to contribute to improving public health outcomes in diverse settings drawing on a global health perspective.

Program Structure
Candidates must complete 96 Units of Credit (UOC) comprising:
  • Core courses - 4 courses (24 UOC)
  • International Health courses - 3 courses (18 UOC)
  • Elective courses - 5 courses (30 UOC)
  • Extension* (24 UOC)
48 UOC of core and elective course requirements of MIPH program must be completed with an average mark of 65% or more before the final 24 UOC of MIPH Extension coursework and research can be undertaken. This can be completed while completing requirements for the MPH program. Both the 6 UOC and 18 UOC research projects of the MIPH Extension component may be completed in a range of locations with the involvement of approved local and UNSW academic supervisors and approval of the Program Director.

Core Courses:
MIPH core courses: PHCM9605, PHCM9498 and PHCM9012

International Health Prescribed Electives

Students must complete a minimum of three (18 UOC) of the following courses:
Electives (30 UOC)

Students choose 5 elective courses (30 UOC) from the list below.
PHCM9498 is a pre-requisite core course for PHCM9517, PHCM9518, PHCM9520 and PHCM9521

Note: The 48 UOC MIPH requirements to be completed with a minimimum average mark of 65% to progress to the Extension component of the MIPH are the 3 MIPH core courses, 3 international health prescribed electives and 2 other SPCHM (which may be a MPH core or international health elective courses).

*Extension (24 UOC)

Choose from one of the following options:
  • 18 UOC major project in international public health (PHCM9150) to be negotiated with an academic supervisor plus a 6 UOC elective course; or
  • 6 UOC research project (PHCM9148) to be determined in consultation with the academic supervisor of the project plus 3 elective courses (18 UOC).
Streams (Areas of Specialisation)

The following stream is available in the Master of International Public Health (Extension). This allows students to focus their studies on an area where the School has considerable expertise.
Students considering enrolling in a stream must seek advice from the MPH Program Director to ensure that they select the correct courses to meet the requirements of the stream as well as the rules of the dual Masters Extension program.

Additional course requirement

Students from non-English speaking countries who have not previously completed a degree in Australia or other English-speaking country and are 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.

Academic Rules
Please refer to the Program Structure above and contact the school office for further information.

Students enrolled in the MIPH (Extn) / MPH program will be required to exit with the MIPH/MPH on completion of 72 UOC if they fail to achieve an average mark of 65% in the first 48 UOC of the program to meet requirements to progress to the Extension component of the program. Students may also exit early with the 48 UOC MIPH or 48 UOC MPH, or with a Graduate Diploma (36 UOC) or Graduate Certificate (24 UOC) in either International Public Health or Public Health on completion of courses that meet the requirements of the relevant program.

Fees
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Admission Requirements
Applicants are required to have either an undergraduate degree or higher degree in a health-related or public health-related discipline* and one of the following:
  1. Honours or postgraduate qualification in a health-related or public health-related discipline; or
  2. Two years full-time professional experience in a health-related or public health-related discipline, including as a volunteer in a health or public health organisation, or equivalent experience professional experience acquired as part of a health-related degree of 4 or more years duration (e.g. MBBS, Bachelor of Nursing,)
  3. In exceptional circumstances, applications will be considered for entry where the applicant has extensive professional health or public health experience but does not hold a formal qualification in a relevant discipline. (e.g Nurses, Paramedics).
[*Examples include medicine, nursing, allied health, health sciences, biomedical sciences, behavioural and social sciences, human services, environmental health, veterinary science, health administration and management, biostatistics, health economics.]

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