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School of Public Health
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9479 1750
Fax: +61 3 9479 1783
Email: sph
@latrobe.edu.au

School of Public Health

Graduate Certificate in Health Policy
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Policy

The Graduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma in Health Policy are designed for those with an interest in health policy or whose work requires policy skills, or who are seeking skills that may support a career shift. This program has been developed to assist students to understand the changing contexts of policy making, to analyse extant policy and to participate in policy making and policy advocacy in their fields. The postgraduate diploma is structurally integrated with the Master of Public Health enabling participants who perform at a high academic level to proceed with further studies.

Admission Requirements

Prospective students for the graduate certificate and postgraduate diploma are usually required to hold a degree or equivalent. Applicants with relevant experience may be permitted entry into the graduate certificate or single subjects.

Course Structure

The graduate certificate will normally be undertaken part-time over one year. In order to complete the graduate certificate, students are required to complete four units from the Group One list (below). Students who enrol in the graduate certificate may progress to the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Policy. The graduate certificate will be subsumed upon completion of the postgraduate diploma.

The postgraduate diploma is normally undertaken on a part-time basis over two to five years but may be undertaken full-time over one year. Students enrolling in, or proceeding to the postgraduate diploma will take a further four units from either group. Elective units from elsewhere in the University may be taken, subject to the approval of the Course Coordinator.

Unit Code	Unit Title	Semester (Dates)	Location
Group One
PHE4POL or PHE4HPA	Public Health Policy	1	Other Site
PHE4POL or PHE4HPA	Health Policy Analysis	2	City
PHE4AHS	The Australian Healthcare System	1	DE / City
PHE5HEF	Health Economics and Finance (Not available in 2007)
PHE5IPO	International Health Policy	2	City
Group Two
PHE4AHR	Australia's International Health Relations	S	City
PHE4PDE	Program Development and Evaluation	2	City
PHE4SHI	Sociology of Health and Illness	1	City
PHE4HOR (Previously PHE4ODH)	Healthy Organisations (Previously Organisational Development for Health)	1 and 2	1 DE 2 City
PHE4HCQ (Previously PHE4QMM)	Health Care Quality (Previously Quality Management in Health Care)	2	City
PHE4CHS	Comparative and Historical Study of Health Systems	2	DE

Different units can be chosen by international students to comply with visa requirements if needed. The availability of some units in a given year will depend upon sufficient enrolments.