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. Drawing on practitioner experience, including from people with disability themselves, this subject will provide you with a foundation for critically considering issues of equity, representation, intersectionality, and meaningful participation. We will draw on real world examples from multiple sectors, including health, employment, education, and disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response.
Disability in Policy and Practice equips students to critically analyse barriers to participation in contemporary health and development practice.
Health and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary subject explores the meaning of the right to health (and supporting rights). The subject examines the principles and practical applications of a rights-based framework in law, policy, programs, and advocacy to further the health and well-being of diverse population groups, including children, women, indigenous people, people with mental illness, disability, and refugees and asylum seekers. It also considers the human rights framework in relation to global challenges including climate change, conflict, nuclear disarmament, and intellectual property laws
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. Facilitated by experts with applied field experience in program design and implementation in Australia and other global contexts, students will learn via practical, staged exercises to draft strategic program plans.
Globally, non-communicable diseases account for over two thirds of all deaths, and over half of disability adjusted life years. In Non-Communicable Disease and Global Health, students will gain a practical understanding of the epidemiology, determinants, consequences and global health responses to the non-communicable disease epidemic.
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, Planetary and Global Health focuses on three key public health threats (climate change; poor sanitation and water security; and nuclear weapons) that require complex multidisciplinary solutions.
‘Health for all’ is the anchoring principle of universal health care but how can this grand aim be delivered across diverse settings?
Primary Health Care: applied principles develops students’ capacity to critically appraise evidence for key principles of Primary Health Care, including equity of access, multisectoral collaboration, integrated service delivery and community engagement and participation. The subject will arm you with frameworks to support program and policy design and development and appraisal skills, both key for your future public and global health careers
The Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) in Jamkhed, India has won global acclaim and provided inspiration for the seminal Declaration of Alma Ata (1978).
Primary Health Care, Jamkhed, India is a 3 week residential subject, students 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.
‘One Health’ acknowledges the interdependence of human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Putting One Health into Practice unpacks the objectives of One Health, and different methods for operationalising or implementing it for action and impact.
Students are introduced to a series of steps that can be applied to a specific issue to create a One Health action plan to sustainably address that issue.