Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion

Entry Requirements

Applicants for the graduate certificate must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution.

English language requirements

IELTS (Academic): 6.0 Overall with 6.0 Speaking, 6.0 Writing; TOEFL iBT: 72 Total score with 18 Speaking, 21 Writing; Pearson PTE Academic: 50 Overall with 50 Speaking, 50 Writing; Cambridge C1 Advanced: 169 Overall with 169 Speaking, 169 Writing; Occupational English Test (OET): 300 Speaking, 300 Writing, 300 Reading, 300 Listening; Duolingo (Up to and including Semester 2, 2024): Overall 95-100

Course Details

The Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills to incorporate the principles of public health into specific fields of practice in order to reduce inequalities in health care access and health outcomes.

In Australia, these principles include:

• maximising consumer and community participation to enable individuals and communities to be better informed and to be involved in health care decisions
• encouraging partnerships between health and non-health sectors to ensure full use of resources
• fostering self-management and self-reliance to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in individuals, groups and communities
• promoting health and disease prevention to attain and sustain good health and well-being.

What you will study

The program prepares you to analyse theory of the determinants of health and wellbeing, understand models of public health in a range of real-world and workplace problems, appreciate multidisciplinary approaches in health and human services for promoting and improving health, and apply principles of health promotion to clinical or community practice. Topics cover areas such as health promotion in public health, social determinants of health and wellbeing, action on social determinants of health, and primary health care practice in developing countries.

Your career

Public health has become an increasingly significant focus of government plans worldwide, initiating developments at local and national levels within multiple healthcare settings. Graduates are expected to progress into employment in public health policy, management and practice.

Potential occupations include:

• public health officer
• nutrition advisor
• public health senior consultant
• health promotion planning and evaluation officer
• health information officer
• health and safety manager.