Course details

Summary

Improve the nation’s health and your career prospects

Get a high-quality, comprehensive education in public health to boost your career while improving the health of New Zealanders.

What is it Like?

The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health will give you leading-edge expertise in many different subjects such as epidemiology and biostatistics, Maori and Pacific health, health economics, occupational health, environmental health, programme evaluation, health inequalities and health policy.

Transfer your learning to your workplace

Massey’s Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health emphasizes applied research and practical experience. You will be able to apply knowledge gained through coursework to projects that reflect your work and interests.

Get great work skills

With the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health, you will understand the core functions of public health: health promotion, disease prevention, disease surveillance and monitoring, health assessment and health protection.

You will also be able to identify and critically analyse public health problems and solutions from a range of perspectives including biological, environmental, behavioral, social and cultural determinants as well as from a systems perspective. These skills will be invaluable in the workplace.

Learn from those practicing in the field

You will benefit from our course lecturers’ active engagement in public health research, as well as learning from guest speakers from the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards, other research institutions, health providers and community organisations.

This breadth of knowledge and experience will give you a real-world view of the current state of knowledge in public health and practical know-how with immediate application in your workplace.

Careers

There are many employment opportunities that public health training can give both in the health sector and wider government and community sectors. These include:

• Health promotion
• Health protection
• Policy advisors and analysts in the government sector
• Health sector analysts in district health boards, public health units, NGOs, PHOs
• Programme coordinators and evaluators
• Up skilling for public health nurses
• Health community workers
• Public health research and teaching

Entry criteria

Candidates are required to have a relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent and admission to Postgraduate Study.

English language requirements:

• IELTS score of 6.5 (no band less than 6.0)
• TOEFL iBT score of 90 overall (min 20 in Writing)
• PTE Academic score of 58 Overall (min 50 in communicative skills)
• Cambridge English score of 180