Fast Facts
Location
This course may require some on-campus attendance
Commencing
- Online: February, July
Fees
$9,864.00+
$28,152.00^
+estimated annual Commonwealth Supported Fee for a full-time study load
^estimated annual tuition fee for a full-time study load
Plus Student Services and Amenities fee
Fee deferral and scholarships available if eligible
Currently displaying fees for 2024, which are indicative only of the upcoming year's.
Duration
2 years full-time
Entry Requirements
Completion of an AQF level 7 bachelor degree in a relevant health discipline; or equivalent
Course Code
122204
Course detail
Be equipped with the interdisciplinary skills and expertise to address pressing global challenges in public health and global development. Gain an in-depth understanding of the urgent issues facing vulnerable communities through JCU’s unique position as a university for the Tropics that has worldwide impact.
Be prepared to develop strategies for addressing both current and future challenges through the Master of Public Health — Master of Global Development degree (MPH-MGlobDev), which is highly attuned to the development challenges of the next decade. This degree is the first joint Master’s program in Australia to respond to the development needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. You will gain key conceptual and practical skills to understand and respond to shifting landscapes of public health and human development.
Benefit from studying at a university ranked in the top 100 universities in the world for the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Develop the knowledge and experience which will allow you to work in priority areas of poverty alleviation, disease prevention, health promotion, gender equality, social justice, climate responsive systems, and sustainable resource management, identified by the UN as key global challenges for future sustainability. You will gain vital intercultural competencies through the degree’s strong focus on global development while responding to a domestic imperative, equipping you to work effectively and ethically in contexts throughout the Tropics and Asia-Pacific.
Learn how to critically analyse, evaluate and generate solutions to complex public health and development problems for tropical, remote and inter-cultural settings through informed and evidence-based methodologies. Throughout this degree, you’ll learn to integrate and apply advanced theoretical and technical knowledge in public health and global development policy and practice, ensuring your ability to make a difference at both a community and policy level.
As a student at JCU, your studies can include national and international opportunities due to the University’s strong connections across the Asia Pacific region and the Tropics. Gain in-depth experience and benefit from networking opportunities through the work integrated learning, workplace-based projects, field exercises and service-learning available throughout this degree. Through extensive practical experiences, you will develop relevant technical and leadership skills to work in global development, public health, high-level research and effective practices that improve social, economic, cultural and environmental futures in the Tropics.
Choose to undertake the Master of Public Health — Master of Global Development degree on a coursework basis, with a research focus, or via a combination of coursework and placements. Study the way that suits you best, with options for online or mixed-mode delivery.
About JCU’s Master of Public Health — Master of Global Development
Develop expert skills and experience in research, strategic prevention and critical response with Australia’s first Master of Public Health — Master of Global Development degree. Gain a specialised understanding of the most pressing health and development issues in the Tropics and throughout the world.
Study JCU’s MPH-MGlobDev and become a change maker
Gain advanced professional leadership, project and organisational management skills as you study core subjects that include public health management, epidemiology, biostatistics, critical issues in global development, community development, environmental and regional planning, and politics and foreign relations. Choose from subjects that will allow you to specialise according to your interests or equip you to work in a wide variety of health and development settings.
Contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The MPH-MGlobDev has a strong focus on understanding and responding to challenges facing the world and contributing to a sustainable future in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This degree is at the forefront of the transition from international development to global development. JCU’s position in remote and tropical Australia provides students with unique opportunities to engage with pressing public health and development priorities, including the role and impact of extractive industries in the 21st century, how to build climate resilient health systems, and the rising threat of anti-microbial resistance and its links to natural resource management.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please review the inherent requirements for the Master of Public Health and the Master of Global Development.
As a graduate of the Master of Public Health — Master of Global Development, you will have strong skills in project and resource management, leadership, planning, critical evaluation and advanced research as well as extensive practical experience. As the MPH-MGlobDev is the first of its kind in Australia, you will stand out from the crowd as a professional with a unique combination of expertise in both public health and development, knowledge which has become highly valuable in a world drastically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Master of Public Health — Master of Global Development prepares you for a career with unlimited potential. Your knowledge and skills are highly applicable in many areas of health, education, and development, allowing you to enter a wide variety of positions. Highly regarded by employers, health and development graduates are sought after within a range of national and international NGOs, government departments, local councils and private sector operators working in global development.
Your future career will have a national and international scope through JCU’s strong ties across the Asia Pacific and Tropics, which you will first experience in your professional placement. The connections you make with the organisation facilitating your placement could lead to employment opportunities post-graduation. These organisations can include government, multilateral and non-government organisations such as: the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT), the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), CARE Australia, the Fred Hollows Foundation, and state and territory Departments of Health.
International NGOs may include the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Doctors Without Borders, the World Health Organisation (WHO), Marie Slopes International, PLAN International, and UN bodies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Handbook year | Information valid for students commencing in 2024. |
Course Code | 122204 |
Course type | Masters Degree (Coursework) (AQF Level 9) |
Owner | Academy |
College | Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences Arts, Society and Education |
Award Requirements
Admission Requirements
Course pre-requisites | Completion of an AQF level 7 bachelor degree in a relevant health discipline, from this or another university; or Other qualifications or practical experience recognised by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Academy as equivalent to the above; or Submission, as an exceptional case, of other evidence of professional and academic attainments, including employment for a minimum of five years in health related activities. Meeting these requirements does not guarantee selection. In assessing applications the following will be considered: prior academic performance and prior relevant work experience. |
Minimum English language proficiency requirements | Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 2 – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy. |
| Additional selection requirements | Information published by JCU or otherwise made available to students when applying, may specify additional criteria to be considered in ranking applicants in order of merit if the number of applications exceeds a quota or other limit on the places made available for the course. Information provided by applicants during the application process and any other information obtained by JCU in the application process may be used by JCU to rank applicants in order of merit by reference to those additional criteria. |
Post admission | For external delivery option, computer and internet access is required. Must achieve a GPA of 5 or above in the first year of study to be eligible to undertake the Global Development 12 credit point research thesis. |
Academic Requirements for Course Completion
Credit points | 48 credit points as per course structure |
Course learning outcomes | Upon successful completion of the Master of Public Health – Master of Global Development, graduates will be able to:
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Inherent Requirements
Inherent Requirements | Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University's learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession. For more information please visit: Postgraduate Public Health and Tropical Medicine - Master of Global Development. |
Reasonable adjustments | All JCU students have the opportunity to demonstrate, with reasonable adjustments where applicable, the inherent requirements for their course. For more information please visit: Student Disability Policy and Procedure. |
Course Structure
CORE SUBJECTS
:03 Tropical Public Health
:03 Public Health Management, Leadership, Planning and Policy
:03 Epidemiology for Public Health
:03 Biostatistics for Public Health
:03 Communicable Disease Control
:03 Global Health and Development
:03 Development in Practice
:03 Critical Issues in Global Development
:03 Community Development or :03 Environmental and Regional Planning or :03 Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
:03 Equitable Development and Social Change
:03 Asia Pacific Development: Culture and Globalisation
:03 Politics and Foreign Relations
PLUS
Select Option 1 (Coursework), Option 2 (Research) or Option 3 (Placement and Coursework)
OPTION 1 (COURSEWORK)
Select 6 credit points of subjects from List 1 and 6 credit points of subjects from List 2
OPTION 2 (RESEARCH)
Select 12 credit points of subjects from List 3
OPTION 3 (PLACEMENT AND COURSEWORK)
Select TM5571:03 Public Health Placement or :03 Professional Placement
PLUS
Select 9 credit points of subjects from List 1 or List 2
PLIST 1
Disaster Resilience, Conservation and Natural Resource Management
:03 Conservation Biology
:03 Population and Community Ecology
:03 Technological Applications in Ecology
:03 Restoration Ecology
:03 Wildlife Ecology and Management
:03 Marine Conservation Biology
:03 Economics and Sustainable Resource Management
:03 Human Dimensions of Nature, Environment and Conservation
:03 International Environmental Policy and Governance
:03 Principles and Practices of Protected Area Management
:03 Disasters, Communities and Planning
:03 Leadership in Disaster Management
:03 Natural Resource Management
Public Health
:03 Tropical Public Health
:03 Environmental Health
:03 Public Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
:03 Global Health and Development
:03 Reproductive Health in Developing Countries
:03 Public Health Management, Leadership, Planning and Policy
:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
:03 Disaster Health Management
:03 Public Health Economics
Sustainable Development Planning and Policy
:03 Climate Change and Biodiversity
:03 Environmental and Regional Planning
:03 Environmental Economics
:03 Sustainability in Practice
:03 Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
:03 Urban Geography and Design
:03 Research Methods for Global Development
:03 Economics for a Sustainable World
:03 Policy Analysis and Management
:03 Sustainable Tourism Management
:03 Social Policy Analysis
Indigenous Futures
:03 Indigenous Australians
:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as Colonial Subjects
:03 Comparative Indigenous Studies
:03 Navigating the Cultural Interface
Economics, Governance and Social Change
:03 Cost Benefit Analysis
:03 Econometrics and Big Data Analysis
:03 Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
:03 Macroeconomic Policy
:03 Economics of Social Policy
:03 Economics and Sustainable Resource Management
:03 Regional Environmental History
:03 Corporate Responsibility and Governance
:03 International Political Economy
:03 Shifting Geopolitical Environments in Emerging States
:03 Political Communication; Ecology and Environmentalism
Development Leadership and Management
:03 Design Thinking Principles
:03 Career Planning
:03 Leadership Futures
:03 State Society and Governance
:03 Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution
:03 Conflict Analysis
:03 Conflict Resolution Processes
:03 Ethical Decision Making and Reflective Practice
:03 People in Organisations
:03 Cross-Cultural Leadership
:03 Negotiation
:03 Facilitative Mediation Practice
:03 Sustainable Conflict Management
:03 Leadership and Management Skills
:03 Professional Placement
List 2
:03 Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals
:03 Infection Prevention and Control in Health Care Settings
:03 Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine
:03 Health Coaching and Behaviour Change
:03 Models of Care and Communication Strategies for Lifestyle Medicine
:03 Lifestyle Medicine Assessment and Prescription
:03 Indigenous Australians
:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as Colonial Subjects
:03 Comparative Indigenous Studies
IA5030:03 Navigating the Cultural Interface
:03 Clinical Epidemiology
:03 Tropical Medicine
:03 Human Parasitology
:03 Social Science in Public Health
:03 Diving and Marine Medicine
:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
:03 Travel Medicine
:03 Environmental Health
:03 Medical Entomology
:03 Qualitative Research Methods for Tropical Health Practitioners
:03 Public Health Economics
:03 Health Promotion
:03 Applied Health Economics
:03 Tropical Paediatrics
:03 Public Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
:03 Public Health and the Workplace
:03 Managing Effective Health Programs
:03 Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation
:03 Disaster Health Management
:03 Foundations of Aeromedical Retrieval
:03 Reproductive Health in Developing Countries
:03 Public Health Leadership and Crisis Management
:03 Health Promotion Strategies and Methods
:03 Public Health Placement
:03 Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
:03 Substance Misuse Prevention
:03 Adult Secondary Retrievals
:03 Paediatric and Neonatal Retrievals
:03 Emerging Public Health Threats
:03 Health and Nutrition in the Tropics
:03 Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
:03 Tropical Toxinology
:03 Introduction to One Health
:03 Advanced Microbiology and Immunology
:03 Infectious Diseases of Livestock
:03 Advances in Veterinary Parasitology
:03 Advanced Epidemiology
List 3
:03 Research Methods for Global Development
HS5102:03 Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals
TM5527:03 Project
TM5549:06 Dissertation 1
TM5310:09 Dissertation 2
TM5524:03 Qualitative Research Methods for Public Tropical Practitioners
TM5601:03 Qualitative Research Methods for One Health Professionals
Location
COURSE AVAILABLE AT | NOTES |
JCU Cairns | |
JCU Townsville | |
External |
Candidature
Expected time to complete | 2 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
Maximum time to complete | 10 years |
Maximum leave of absence | 2 years Please refer to the Coursework Enrolment Procedure |
Progression
Course progression requisites | Nil |
Course includes mandatory professional placement(s) | No |
Course includes mandatory fieldwork | No |
Special assessment requirements | Must achieve a GPA of 5 or above in the first year of study to be eligible to undertake the Global Development 12 credit point research thesis. |
Professional accreditation requirements | Nil |
Supplementary exam for final subject | Not applicable |
Credit
Eligibility | Students may apply for exemption for previous tertiary study where appropriate in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure. Credit may be granted for AQF Level 8 qualifications in a cognate discipline. |
Maximum allowed | 6 credit points except where a student transfers from one JCU award to another, then credit may be granted for more than two-thirds of the new award, where there is subject equivalence between the awards |
Currency | Credit will be granted only for subjects completed in the 10 years prior to the commencement of this course |
Expiry | Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 18 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed this course. |
Other restrictions | Not applicable |
Award Details
Award title | MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH – MASTER OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT |
Approved abbreviation | MPH-MGlobDev |
Inclusion of majors on testamur | Not applicable |
Exit with lesser award | Students who exit the course prior to completion, and have completed 12 credit points of appropriate subjects, may be eligible to receive the award of Graduate Certificate of Public Health Students who exit the course prior to completion, and have completed the relevant number of credit points and appropriate subjects, may be eligible to receive one of the following awards: * Graduate Certificate of Global Development * Graduate Diploma of Global Development |
Course articulation | Not applicable |
Special awards | Students may receive an Award of Recognition in accordance with the Recognition of Academic Excellence Procedure |
Estimated annual Commonwealth Supported fee: $AUD9,864.00
Estimated annual tuition fee: $AUD28,152.00
A Student Services and Amenities fee is payable per subject up to a maximum amount per year.
A variety of Scholarships are available to suit different student types.
Complete an online application through our
Master of Public Health - Master of Global Development applicants must also complete and upload the following forms and documentary evidence with their application:
- Current (if applicable)
- Degree Testamur
- Curriculum Vitae
- Personal Statement or Letter of Motivation.
Real stories
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Student
Nathan Dawes
Master of Public Health
JCU’s Public Health courses are facilitated by dedicated, experienced staff who recognise each student as an individual and with a unique set of postgraduate circumstances. A must do for any health care practitioner wishing to further themselves.
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Student
Joyce Gehr
Master of Global Development
The Global Development program offered me a great blend of theoretical knowledge and opportunities for professional development through hands-on learning and work-placement opportunities. It truly made my postgraduate experience memorable, enriching, challenging and a worthwhile investment.
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Lecturer
Dr Zoe Wang
Master of Global Development
Study on-campus or online, and embark on a transformative journey to become a catalyst for positive change in our interconnected world. Gain the in-depth knowledge and practical skills to tackle pressing global challenges, from sustainable development to social equity, and from public health to climate change.
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Lecturer
Professor Stephanie Topp
Global Health and Development, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences
MPH-MGlobDev students will benefit from studying at JCU’s tropical campuses with work-integrated learning that taps into the global networks and real-world experience of lecturers, and focuses on the unique development and public health concerns of Northern Australia, the Western Pacific and South East Asia regions.