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Graduate Diploma in Veterinary Public Health (GD-VPH) // Course structure
About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Further study
- Notes
Coordinator
Dr Simon Firestone
Email: vet-publichealth@unimelb.edu.au
Contact
Prospective students
http://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/about/contact
Current students
Course structure
This course requires completion of one compulsory subject plus seven elective subjects, each worth 12.5 points.
Up to a total of 25 credit points may be credited to students who have completed pre-approved electives in other faculties or schools (such as a the Graduate School of Management or the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health), or subjects from pre-approved courses in veterinary public health and epidemiology offered by other universities.
Subject options
The availability of each subject within a given year will depend on class enrolments.
Compulsory subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
VETS90083 | Selection & Interpretation of Lab Tests | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Elective subjects
Students should select seven (7) of the following:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
VETS90084 | Communication in Disease Emergencies | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90085 | Management in Disease Emergencies | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90086 | Epidemiology of Epidemics | February (Online) |
12.5 |
VETS90087 | Transboundary Animal Diseases | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90088 | Vectorborne & Wildlife Reservoir Disease | August (Online) |
12.5 |
VETS90089 | Eradicable Diseases | February (Online) |
12.5 |
VETS90090 | Diseases of Poultry & Aquatic Industries | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90091 | Structuring Emergency Disease Responses | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90092 | Disease Investigation at Farm Level | April (Online) |
12.5 |
VETS90093 | Outbreak Assessment at Population Level | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90094 | Outbreak Response | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
VETS90029 | Vet Public Health Research Project |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
VETS90044 | Vet Public Health Research Project Pt 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
VETS90045 | Vet Public Health Research Project Pt 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
POPH90013 | Biostatistics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90093 | Economic Evaluation 1 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90094 | Health Economics 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90095 | Economic Evaluation 2 | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90144 | Linear & Logistic Regression | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90189 | Health Program Design & Implementation | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90206 | Health Policy | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90217 | Foundations of Public Health | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90229 | Health Economics 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90230 | Planetary and Global Health | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90112 | Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90271 | Infectious Diseases Modelling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
A number of the elective subjects have prerequisites.
Last updated: 18 December 2020