Public Health Monash University

Overview

Through a multidisciplinary curriculum, combining peer learning, theory, and practical application, students gain skills to tackle complex public health challenges in Indonesia and globally.

This Public Health programme from Monash University educates students through a multidisciplinary curriculum, combining peer-to-peer learning, evidence-based theory, and contextualised application, to intelligently respond to complex and real problems in a variety of workplace settings and health sectors.

Learning Outcomes

• integrate public health related knowledge, critical analysis, expert judgement, autonomy, adaptability and responsibility into practice to address public health problems relevant at a community, national, international or global level

• apply, interpret and communicate epidemiological and biostatistical knowledge and skills in public health practice

• analyse, critically reflect on, and synthesise quantitative papers published in the epidemiological and public health literature

• evaluate the historical, social and political context of public health in society and appraise recent developments in public health

• analyse and critically reflect on global public health issues

• effectively communicate the risks to health of environmental, occupational, lifestyle, personal and social risk factors and conditions

• integrate public health knowledge, expert judgement, autonomy, adaptability and responsibility into public health management and leadership roles

• research knowledge and apply theories and research methods to a variety of public health problems and evaluate how they impact on health status and inform professional practice

• generate and evaluate disease/injury prevention and health promotion strategies and/or programmes, and/or research and apply health economic principles and methods, to reduce the impact of health problems in the community

• design and analyse public health policy to reduce the impact of health problems on the community

• communicate, evaluate and analyse principles of good research and of ethical issues in public health, and evaluate how they inform ethical and professional practice.

• employ expert knowledge and specialist skills in policy development, research, management and evaluation.

• investigate, analyse, document and communicate the core issues and requirements in developing data analysis capability.

• demonstrate mastery of innovative practices and their implementation in the Indonesian context.