The program provides students with health promotion practitioner employment opportunities in local, State and Commonwealth Government Health Departments as well as in non-government agencies.

As a graduate, you will also have the skills required to promote good health to individuals, families and groups in a range of community and institutional settings.

Student Administration
Logan campus Griffith University
University Drive
MEADOWBROOK QLD 4131
Tel: +61 (0)7 373 57700
Email: logan_enquiry@griffith.edu.au
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These programs provide students with a wide-ranging and diverse base of specialist management subjects. They are tailored for graduates or managers of health services wishing to develop their skills and understanding of contemporary health service management issues. The programs are offered by a consortium of Griffith University's Graduate School of Management and the School of Public Health. The Australian College of Health Service Executives is considering the programs for accreditation.

Content:

• Health Informatics
• Change Management in Dynamic Health Care Systems
• Health Economics
• Health Finance and Project Management
• Strategic Decision Making in Health
• Health Policy and Planning

Electives:

• Managing Workplace Health and Safety
• Applied Statistics for Public Health
• Health Project
• Health Workforce Development
• Quality Health Care Systems and Practice
• Health Services Managers and the Law
• Health Research Methodology

Office of Graduate Studies
Nathan campus Griffith University
170 Kessels Road
NATHAN QLD 4111
Tel: +61 (0)7 373 55323
Fax: +61 (0)7 373 53885
Email: gsc-nathan@griffith.edu.au
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The Master of Nutrition and Dietetics program aims to:
1. prepare graduate students at the appropriate tertiary level to meet Dietitian Association of Australia (DAA) national competency standards for entry into the profession as a dietitian; and
2. develop graduate competencies relevant to existing and emerging practice areas and workforce needs; and
3. actively involve the nutrition and dietetic profession in developing, delivering and evaluating the program.

Content:

• Advanced Nutrition
• Public Health Nutrition
• Food Science
• Nutrition Assessment
• Health Research Method
• Food Service Management
• Clinical Dietetics
• Nutrition Education & Counselling

• an approved university degree;
• successful completion of biochemistry and physiology at second year Bachelor of Science level studies (or equivalent). A thorough understanding of physiology and biochemistry is necessary for informed study of nutrition and dietetics and is specified as a requirement for dietitians specified in the DAA Accreditation process.
• Higher Postgraduate English language requirements: Click here

Office of Graduate Studies
Gold Coast campus Griffith University
PMB 50
GOLD COAST MAIL CENTRE QLD 9726
Tel: +61 (0)7 555 28752
Fax: +61 (0)7 555 28997
Email: gsc-goldcoast@griffith.edu.au
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This program title and structure takes into account the current national and international trend for postgraduate nursing programs to be titled as programs of advanced practice and for such programs to develop nursing competence, skills and knowledge in assessment, planning, implementation, diagnosis and evaluation of care from a specialist or generalist capacity. The specialty undertaken will be indicated in parenthesis. This takes into account industrial agreements which require that nursing qualifications be listed on the official testamur for nurses to receive an additional certificate allowance.
This program has been designed to meet the core skill requirements of the advanced nurse practitioner and allows the opportunity for professional competencies as developed by the specialist groups to be used to assess competence and commitment of students.

Content:

• Community and Primary Health Care
• Critical Care Nursing
• Emergency Nursing
• Gerontological Nursing
• Health Care Research
• Infection Control and Prevention
• Mental Health Nursing
• Palliative Care
• Sexual Health

Office of Graduate Studies
Gold Coast campus Griffith University
PMB 50
GOLD COAST MAIL CENTRE QLD 9726
Tel: +61 (0)7 555 28752
Fax: +61 (0)7 555 28997
Email: gsc-goldcoast@griffith.edu.au
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The Master of Public Health (incorporating the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma) is a unique postgraduate degree that prepares health professionals from a broad range of backgrounds with knowledge and skills from a variety of disciplines to define, assess critically and resolve public health problems.

Core courses:

• Change Management in Dynamic Healthcare Systems
• Applied Statistics for Public Health
• Environment and Population Health
• Epidemiology: An Introduction
• Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health

Listed electives: Health Economics, Health Informatics, Managing Workplace Health and Safety Health Finance and Project Management, Community Practice for Health Professionals, Challenges in Ageing, Environmental Health Management Systems, Public Health Nutrition
Health Project, Sexual Health Theory, Health Workforce Development, Health Promotion, Intervention Management, Health Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Health Policy and Planning, Strategic Decision Making in Health, Healthy and Ecologically Sustainable Development for Public Health, Capacity Building for Public Health Action, Indigenous Health,
Community Engagement and Qualitative Methods, Health Challenges and Effective Responses,
Health Services Managers and the Law, Quality Healthcare Systems and Practice, Health Research Methodology.

• holds a bachelors degree from the university or a similar qualification from an approved institution in health, behavioural, social or biological sciences:
  (i) with first or second class honours;
  (ii) which required study for at least four years; or
  (iii) which required study for at least three years, if
  + (A) a postgraduate diploma from the university; or
  + (B) the research publications and written reports of that person satisfy the Graduate Board that the applicant should be accepted as a candidate; and
• has, since obtaining the qualifications required, had training or experience in a relevant field for a period of at least:
  (i) three years, where the applicant seeks entry through paragraph (a) (iii)(B); or
  (ii) two years, otherwise. Further Informations

Coursework:
You are required to attend approximately 3 hours of scheduled classes per week per course. Classes are scheduled from 5 p.m. to accommodate students in full-time employment unavailable to attend classes during the day.

Office of Graduate Studies
Nathan campus Griffith University
170 Kessels Road
NATHAN QLD 4111
Tel: +61 (0)7 373 55323
Fax: +61 (0)7 373 53885
Email: gsc-nathan@griffith.edu.au
Internet: Click here