University of Melbourne Subjects

A thorough comprehension of the different institutions, structures and processes that constitute health systems globally provides a strong platform for further studies and varied career paths in population and global health.

Comparative Health Systems provides students with the analytical frameworks to explore the social and political dynamics, institutions and structures that constitute health systems globally.

Disability inclusion has recently emerged as a priority in global development. This reflects growing global concern over extreme poverty, poor health outcomes and inequity, alongside the understanding that many health and development interventions are not reaching those most excluded or most-at-risk.

Disability and Global Development equips students to critically analyse barriers to participation in contemporary health and development practice.

An increasing global focus on program effectiveness and efficiency has brought renewed attention to the role of evidence in designing and implementing health programs.

Students of Health Program Design and Implementation will engage with the discipline of implementation science, and will investigate a range of current theories and approaches to program design.

Globally, non-communicable diseases account for over two thirds of all deaths, and over half of disability  adjusted life years. While non communicable diseases have sometimes been assumed to impact only on wealthy countries, they are in fact a major health and development challenge across  high-low-and middle-income countries.

Pandemic Preparedness and Response explores pandemic preparedness and response from a  multidisciplinary perspective.  Focusing on pandemic examples,students are provided  with an intersectoral framework through  which to appraise a range of preparedness  and response efforts across diverse global contexts.

Improving global health in the long term requires a deep appreciation of the impact of environmental issues at local, national, and global scales. To facilitate depth of  learning, this subject focuses on three  key public health threats (climate change; poor sanitation and water security; and nuclear  weapons) that require complex multidisciplinary solutions.

Students of Planetary and Global Health will explore these interrelated planetary challenges, their profound implications for population health, and the demand for high level integrated problem solving in the coming decades

Primary Health Care, Jamkhed, India is a 3 week residential subject. Students will learn about the Jamkhed Model while  living in the resource-poor context of central Maharashtra, India. Students engage with and critically analyse the Jamkhed approach to community health and development.