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Climate, Environment and Health

Master of Public HealthInformal specialisationYear: 2024

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Overview

Students undertaking this specialisation will examine global environmental challenges, their profound implications for population health and health systems, and the need for interdisciplinary solutions now, and in coming decades. The specialisation aims to improve students’ understanding and interpretation of contemporary frameworks for action on climate change and health, including environmental health risk and governance, sustainable healthcare, and global and planetary health. Students will be exposed to widely used decision-support tools and develop skills in vulnerability and capacity assessment, policy agenda setting, adaptation and mitigation actions, and evaluation in climate change and other environmental health areas. Students will analyse the governance of climate change and environmental health risks that include prevention and protection using an equity, justice and ‘systems’ lens.  In doing so, key national and international regulatory and legislative structures and directives, and innovative programs related to environmental health protection and climate change adaptation and mitigation will be explored across multiple settings.  As a result, students will become familiar with and critique relevant policies and international agreements pertaining to environment, climate change and health. Students will also learn to identify complex systems, barriers and enablers implicated in processes of responding to environmental challenges on global, national, and local scales. This subject is aimed at students, who, as current or future decision makers would like to lead and implement change through advocacy, development, implementation, and evaluation of environmental change and health strategies and policies.

Last updated: 5 March 2024

Structure

Standard 200 Point Program (no Advanced Standing):

SIX core subjects and NINE elective subjects and the Capstone Selective POPH90227 Public Health in Practice OR
SIX core subjects, EIGHT elective subjects and either a Research Project or Professional Practice unit

175 Point Pathway:

SIX core subjects and SEVEN elective subjects and the Capstone Selective POPH90227 Public Health in Practice OR
SIX core subjects, SIX elective subjects and either a Research Project or Professional Practice unit

150 Point Pathway:

SIX core subjects and FIVE elective subjects and the Capstone Selective POPH90227 Public Health in Practice OR
SIX core subjects and FOUR elective subjects and either a Research Project or Professional Practice unit

Subject Options

Core Subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
POPH90217 Foundations of Public Health
February (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90013 Biostatistics
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90014 Epidemiology 1
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90218 Public Health Leadership and Management
March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90231 Qualitative Research in Public Health
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90274 Prioritising & Planning in Public Health
July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5

Highly Recommended Electives

Code Name Study period Credit Points
POPH90303 Climate Change and Health
April (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90230 Planetary and Global Health
July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90309 Environmental Health
September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90304 Sustainability and Healthcare
May (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5

Other Recommended Electives

Code Name Study period Credit Points
MEDI90107 Disaster Medicine Principles & Responses
January (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90206 Health Policy
March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
ENST90004 Climate Change Politics and Policy
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90201 Community Engagement for Health Impact
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90022 Healthy Communities
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90307 Health System Transformation
September (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
ENST90033 Climate Change Mitigation
February (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
POPH90209 Comparative Health Systems
August (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
MULT90004 Environmental Sustainability
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MULT90005 Partnerships for Sustainable Futures
February (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ENST90034 Adapting to Climate Change
April (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Capstone

There are three Capstone options to choose from - please refer to the Course Entry for detailed information on each of these:

  1. Research Project
  2. Professional Practice Unit
  3. Capstone selective subject & an additional elective

Last updated: 5 March 2024