Health Promotion raises awareness of healthcare issues and involves developing and implementing strategies for improved health and wellbeing in individuals and communities. Health Promotion graduates help communities and individuals to change their behaviour, working with not-for-profit foundations, disability councils, the public health sector, community health centres, youth centres, schools and local government. Health promotion projects are as diverse as injury prevention, skin cancer prevention, HIV/AIDS awareness and community development. The program combines studies of health politics and planning, health promotion practice, epidemiology and public health with a comprehensive foundation of the health sciences to develop the professional competencies important for ethical and multidisciplinary practice. Evidence-based practice is one of the most important requirements in healthcare today and a strong feature of the program. There is room for electives in areas of individual interest, allowing a richer experience of university life, or to create a secondary specialisation in Health Services Management or Therapeutic Recreation.

Health Policy Planning Officer Health policies are the decisions, plans and actions that are made to reach good health in society. The role of a health policy planner is to develop appropriate health promotion services that target the specific needs of populations. A Health Policy Planning Officer would be responsible for the strategic and operational implementation of health promotion plans. Such officers will also be involved in advocacy and information resource development and might use tools such as social media for to assist with these tasks. Health Promotion Research Project Officer A research officer would be tasked with ensuring health promotion research projects are completed successfully and to time. Roles might include: the development of health promotion research studies; ensuring ethical standards are upheld in the conduction of research; collection and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of an program; and dissemination of findings to the general public and Health Promotion professional audiences.