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Climate, Environment and Health
Master of Public HealthInformal specialisationYear: 2025
Climate, Environment and Health
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: 13 February 2025
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 (Dual-Delivery - 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 | Semester 1 (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 | March (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 | February (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POPH90206 | Health Policy | March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90004 | Climate Change Politics and Policy | March (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 | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ENST90033 | Climate Change Mitigation | March (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 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENST90034 | Adapting to Climate Change | February (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:
- Research Project
- Professional Practice Unit
- Capstone selective subject & an additional elective
Last updated: 13 February 2025