Master of Health Leadership and Management/Master of Infectious Disease Intelligence (Extension)

at University of New South Wales

Core courses

• Strategy, Policy and Change

• Healthcare Economics and Financial Management

• Health Leadership and Workforce Management

• Clinical Governance and Risk Management

• Infectious Diseases Challenges: Epidemiology and Control

• Outbreak Investigation and Intelligence

• Bioterrorism and Health Intelligence

• Foundations of Epidemiology

• Foundations of Biostatistics

Elective courses

Infectious diseases electives:

• Immunisation Policy and Practice

• Applied Research Methods for Public Health

• Politics, Surveillance and Public Health

• The Global HIV Epidemic: Social Aspects and Impacts

• Communicable Disease Control in Global Health

• Predictive Modelling in Public Health

• Infection Prevention and Control in the Healthcare Setting

For entry into this program, you must have one of the following:

• An undergraduate degree in a field relevant to public health or health management and two years full-time professional or volunteer experience. This may also include equivalent professional experience acquired as part of a degree of four or more years duration (e.g., MBBS, MD).

• An undergraduate degree plus an honours or postgraduate degree in a field relevant to public health or health management.

In exceptional circumstances, applicants with extensive relevant professional work experience (e.g., hospital-trained nurses, paramedics, Aboriginal health workers) may be considered. A minimum of five years full-time relevant professional experience is required and an interview with the School of Population Health may be conducted.

English language requirements
 

• IELTS 6.5 overall (min. 6.0 in each subtest)

• TOEFL 90 overall (min. 23 in writing, 22 in reading, listening and speaking)

Indicative First Year Fee

AU $49,000

Future careers

• health services general management

• health services c-suite roles

• government and non-government policy

• medical communications

• medical insurance management

• non-government health service management

• health economics

• health program management

• health care consultancy

• goverment ministries and departments of health

• International health organisations and NGOs 

• international aid agencies

• military and first responder organisations

• health education and advocacy

• research.