The Master of Public Health aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to incorporate into their own workplaces the public health principles, values and practices that reduce inequities in health care access and health outcomes and improve population health status. In the Master of Public Health program, students will develop a range of advanced analytical, organisation and communication skills including increased capacity to understand and act on the following areas: the social determinants of health and well-being principles for an equitable provision of health care models of health, health promotion and health care services research and evaluation to plan more effective health policies and programs ways to improve the conditions that determine health working as an effective member of a team.

At the completion of the course it is expected that graduates will be able to: demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills: in critical analysis of evidence, complex theories, problems, and concepts regarding social, economic, environmental, and political determinants of health in developing, planning, and evaluating public health approaches to health problems in critiquing and applying contemporary public health approaches in work-related environments and practice of research principles, methodologies, and methods applicable to public health theory, policy and practice in creativity and innovation in transferring knowledge to practice in effective communication in the workplace and university context apply an advanced level of knowledge and skills: to recognise their own strengths, limitations, and learning style in showing initiative and creativity in practice to take responsibility, and to advocate for and empower others in critical analysis of evidence and theories regarding determinants of health, planning and evaluating public health approaches, work-related environments; and undertaking public health research activities.