Outline
Outline
Many contemporary health issues are preventable but require complex, innovative solutions. Health promotion action not only strengthens individual skills and capabilities but also influences social, environmental, political and economic conditions to improve health.
The Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion is designed to provide knowledge of the major health promotion principles, strategies politics and systems, and develop introductory skills to design, implement and evaluate programs.
The course will prepare graduates to apply learning in diverse settings in the field of health promotion, or expand on existing experience and research abilities. This course enhances the skills of graduates with a responsibility for health promotion as a part of employment.
Please note: This course is only available to Australian and New Zealand applicants.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.
How this course will make you industry ready
You will benefit from the excellent teaching staff who have hands-on industry experience and intervention-based research credentials.
There are opportunities for you to undertake professional industry placements, regional or overseas study tours or volunteer with Curtin research and practice groups. We also offer a range of elective units, including research skills to enable you to tailor the course to suit your current interests and future career needs.
This course's relevance to the future of health promotion is in providing contemporary and flexible knowledge and skills to equip practitioners to respond to emerging challenges in tomorrow’s health and healthcare.
What jobs can the Health Promotion course lead to?
Our health promotion courses are designed to meet the needs of students wishing to pursue health promotion careers in program delivery, policy, research and evaluation.
Our graduates have gone on to work locally and internationally. Graduates work in a range of settings including workplaces, schools, prisons, local government, allied health and in the community.
What you'll learn
- apply health promotion concepts and practice to enhance the health and wellbeing of groups and populations
- locate, extract, evaluate and synthesise relevant information to develop sustainable health promotion programs
- effectively use new and existing technologies applicable to health promotion to gather information, analyse data and communicate
- demonstrate independent and self-directed learning to enhance professional development
- assess and apply international perspectives and principles to health promotion
- demonstrate an understanding and respect for individual human rights and cultural diversity
- work professionally and ethically across a range of settings
- demonstrate effective project management skills
