Public Health
Coordinator:
Dr Catherine Bennett (Population Health)
Committee:
Dr Alison Morgan (AIHI)
Dr Ruth Beilin (MSLE)
The Public Health stream focuses on the creation and maintenance of environments that promote good public health. This stream seeks to familiarise students with the tools used in environmental health practice. Many of these tools are used by public health practitioners, for example, surveillance, monitoring, observational and analytical epidemiological studies and selected techniques in biostatistics and health economics. Others are specific to environmental health or environmental studies, for example, environmental, social and health impact assessment and qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. The stream shows students the benefits of collaborating with other disciplines and sectors in identifying and managing environmental health problems. It forms a companion program to the Master of Public Health, which has enrolments of about 100 part-time students each year in the degrees offered by Deakin, LaTrobe, Monash and the University of Melbourne. Graduates find employment in the health industry, as health and safety officers in corporations and government agencies, in consulting companies, and development agencies.
Public Health stream details
Please consult the Handbook for further information and timetables.
Students are required to complete the subjects :
950-601 Sustainability, Policy and Management
950-600 Trans-disciplinary thinking and learning
505-966 Environmental Health Services Evaluation
505-969 Epidemiology and Analytical Methods 1
and select electives to make up the balance of the award. The recommended list of electives includes:
121-529 Social Impact Assessment and Evaluation
121-532 Environmental Impact Assessment
121-537 Heritage and Cultural Environments
421-640 Public Health in Hot Climates
485-855 Perception of the Environment
505-500 Health Ethics and Society
505-502 Culture Health and Illness
505-520 Database systems in Epidemiological Studies
505-525 Women and Global Health
505-535 Koorie Health: Past to Pesent
505-537 Ethical Practice in Aboriginal Health
505-539 Living Longer: Global Perspectives
505-545 Women and Communicable Diseases (not available 2008)
505-900 International Child Health
505-904 Health Program Evaluation 2
505-908 Health Economics 1
505-909 Economic Evaluation 2
505-922 Reearch Methods in Social Health
505-929 Infectios disease Epidemology
505-963 Primary Health Care (Field class to Jamkhed, India. Applications required by June)
505-970 Epidemiology and Analytical Methods 1
505-971 Linear and Logistic Regression
505-972 Survival Analysis and Regression for Rates
505-973 Study Designs in Epidemiology
512-545 Environmental Psychology
610-680 Environmental Chemistry
730-683 environmental Law
950-603/ 600-604 Environmental Risk Assessment
These subjects are available in the 2008 academic year, unless otherwise stated. Students may take other electives subject to the approval of the stream coordinator.
Students may apply to undertake a research project as part of a course of study. This requires good academic performance and the approval of the stream coordinator.