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Postgraduate health

Seeking a career change through a health masters program? Or looking to upskill or advance your health career? Discover how Curtin’s postgraduate health science courses can help.

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Why study health science?

By choosing to study health sciences you’re choosing to pursue a career in the fastest growing industry in Australia – becoming part of a respected community that plays a pivotal role in improving people’s lives.

Whether you’re driven by a passion to help others, advance clinical practices, or contribute to vital research, a career in health gives you a chance to make a real difference in the world.

With a Curtin postgraduate health course, you can…

Change your career

Reskill in a new field with one of our specially designed courses, such as our graduate entry degrees, all aimed at fast-tracking your switch to a new career.

Advance your career

Upskill in a specialty or gain advanced knowledge and leadership skills, empowering you to advance into senior positions.

Study online or part-time

Where possible, we’ve designed our courses so they can be studied online, on campus, part-time or full-time.

Hear from our graduates

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Some of the real benefits I found from doing my degrees at Curtin was how applicable they were to my daily work, and how they prepared me for future roles, both in public health and in medical administration.

The advice I would provide to my younger self would be to seize opportunities as they arise, particularly if they’re outside my comfort zone.

I’m very grateful to Curtin University for preparing me so well to do the job I do today.

Dr Andy Robertson

Chief Health Officer, WA Department of Health
Curtin alumni David Lim

If you want to improve health system processes and patient outcomes, this is definitely the course for you. I enjoyed learning about how different health systems work in different countries from a systems perspective and understanding how different users of the health system interact with each other. I’ve also been provided with networking and work placement opportunities because of Curtin’s strong ties to health organisations.

David Lim

Master of Health Administration
Curtin alumna Elizabeth Connor

I found that my public health knowledge strengthened significantly throughout my studies, particularly in relation to research skills and understandings of public health policy, politics, social determinants and program development, implementation and evaluation. These learnings are currently helping to bring a public health lens to the work I’m doing in the non-government mental health field.

Elizabeth Connor

Master of Public Health
Dr Kumar Deep, Curtin alumni

The course taught me a range of conceptual knowledge and practical skills to support public health action across educational, organisational, socio-economic, environmental and political domains, including in health monitoring, disease prevention and health promotion. I have employed these skills in my role as Regional Manager and Head of Department – Public Health for the WA Country Health Service.

Dr Kumar Deep

Master of Public Health

Subsidised places available

Commonwealth supported places

Save up to 81% on your course fees with our Commonwealth supported place (CSP). We’re offering CSPs across a number of postgraduate health courses for eligible students beginning study in Semester 2 in 2024.

Find out which courses offer CSPs
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Health industry snapshot

National skills shortage

There is an acute shortage of Health Professionals, with 83% of these occupations experiencing a shortage nationally.
Jobs and Skills Australia (2023)

An industry in demand

Health Care and Social Assistance is set to be the fastest growing industry in Australia, with a projected employment increase of 25.2% over the next ten years.
Jobs and Skills Australia (2023)

Growth across all occupations

The number of jobs available for Health Professionals is expected to increase by 25.8% by 2033 – almost double the average across all industries.
Jobs and Skills Australia (2023)

Careers in health

Public health careers in Australia

Learn more about the important role public health plays in protecting our communities, the diverse jobs available, and what you can expect to earn.

What does a health data analyst do?

Discover how data analytics drives better decision-making in public health and improves patient care, and contributes to important projects such as cancer research and tracking disease spread.
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Graduate entry courses

Switch to a new career in health

Keen to make the change to a more rewarding career, but want to do it in the least amount of time? Gain qualification in a field such as nursing or speech pathology in as little as two years.

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Now accepting applications

We are now taking applications for selected postgraduate health courses. Don’t miss out – many of our health courses have different application deadlines, and some close earlier than you might expect.

Get your postgraduate health course guide

Our course guide has everything you need to know about studying postgraduate health at Curtin.

Get your postgraduate health course guide

Our course guide has everything you need to know about studying postgraduate health at Curtin.

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Dr Kim Betts

He has skills in a range of clinical and epidemiological statistical methods, with a strong research focus on the application of prediction modelling in medicine. In his teaching role, he applies a range of data science methods to large clinical and health administrative data sets.

Dr Marshall Makate

Marshall’s research has a global perspective – he is a former Fulbright fellow, and his research focus began with his PhD at the State University of New York in the US. His current research is investigating the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they age, with emphasis on late-life experiences, as well as the broader economic consequences of population ageing.

In health-workforce research, he focuses on issues that impact training and retention of the medical workforce in rural and remote locations. He is also passionate about evaluating the costs, health outcomes, cost-effectiveness, and equity concerns of health interventions amongst children and the elderly.

Dr Gemma Crawford

Gemma encourages her students to explore diverse and challenging public health contexts and strongly promotes work-integrated learning (WIL) and professional identity and leadership development.

Her current research focuses on public health issues including housing security, migration, injury and sexual health, most often with vulnerable and marginalised populations. She manages several Western Australian community-research and evaluation partnerships that focus on real-world outcomes for policymakers, service delivery and community.

Dr Jonathan Hallett

Jonathan is a member of the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH) team, which undertakes translational research with community organisations. His current research is investigating sex-work regulatory models and health outcomes, and how vested interests and ‘morality politics’ impact public-health policy.

He is also a member of the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) and a management team-member of the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (SiREN).

Dr Judith Daire

Judith’s academic career commenced with a master’s degree in health management, policy and planning at Leeds University (UK) and she completed her PhD at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Her research interests include analysis and evaluation of government policies for maternal health, child health, sexual and reproductive health, universal health coverage, social development goals, and organisation of healthcare systems and their performance.

Big data and digital health

Digital health technologies will only increase in application in Australia and worldwide. Learn how to exploit big data, AI and machine learning and the powerful insights they provide to drive improvements in healthcare delivery and efficiency, and address major global challenges in health.

Note: Curtin is a core participant in the national research centre that is accelerating the implementation of digital health technologies across Australia.

Who the course is for
Our Big Data and Digital Health course will suit all health professionals and final-year students, and graduates from cross-disciplinary areas – such as science, technology and business – who are keen to capitalise on the growth in careers in health analytics.

Program leader: Dr Kim Betts
Dr Kim Betts is a biostatistician and epidemiologist, and a Curtin lecturer and researcher.

Public health

The demand for experts who can design, implement and promote intervention strategies able to address major health challenges will continue to strengthen, as will the drive to improve equity in health care.

Public health offers a graduate certificate, graduate diploma and an accelerated master degree with full credits at each level.

Take advantage of current government subsidies for these courses*
Save up to two-thirds on fees and upgrade your qualifications while there are subsidies on offer.
*Subsidies available for Australian and New Zealand citizens only 

Who the courses are for
Curtin’s Public Health courses are designed for medical, nursing and allied health professionals, as well as those in relevant cross-disciplinary areas such as social sciences, education, communications, business and management.

Program leader: Dr Gemma Crawford
Dr Gemma Crawford is a public health practitioner and Curtin lecturer and researcher with comprehensive industry, government and NGO experience. She is the national President of the Australian Health Promotion Association and its youngest life member.

Program leader: Dr Jonathan Hallett
Dr Jonathan Hallett is a Curtin lecturer and researcher in health promotion and public-health policy.

Health administration

Take your career to the next level and learn to navigate and embrace the complexities of leadership and management in the modern healthcare environment.

Health administration offers a graduate certificate, graduate diploma and master degree with full credits at each level.

Who the courses are for
Curtin’s courses in Health Administration are designed for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied health practitioners who wish to gain the management skills for leadership and governance roles.

Program leader: Dr Judith Daire
Dr Judith Daire is a lecturer at Curtin’s School of Population Health and has teaching and research experience in developed and developing countries. Judith also supervises research for PhD, MPhil, masters and honours students.

Government subsidies

Take advantage of current government subsidies for these courses*

Save up to two-thirds on fees and upgrade your qualifications while there are subsidies on offer.

*Subsidies available for Australian and New Zealand citizens only

Dr Kim Betts

He has skills in a range of clinical and epidemiological statistical methods, with a strong research focus on the application of prediction modelling in medicine. In his teaching role, he applies a range of data science methods to large clinical and health administrative data sets.

Dr Marshall Makate

Marshall’s research has a global perspective – he is a former Fulbright fellow, and his research focus began with his PhD at the State University of New York in the US. His current research is investigating the health and economic circumstances of individuals as they age, with emphasis on late-life experiences, as well as the broader economic consequences of population ageing.

In health-workforce research, he focuses on issues that impact training and retention of the medical workforce in rural and remote locations. He is also passionate about evaluating the costs, health outcomes, cost-effectiveness, and equity concerns of health interventions amongst children and the elderly.

Dr Gemma Crawford

Gemma encourages her students to explore diverse and challenging public health contexts and strongly promotes work-integrated learning (WIL) and professional identity and leadership development.

Her current research focuses on public health issues including housing security, migration, injury and sexual health, most often with vulnerable and marginalised populations. She manages several Western Australian community-research and evaluation partnerships that focus on real-world outcomes for policymakers, service delivery and community.

Dr Jonathan Hallett

Jonathan is a member of the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH) team, which undertakes translational research with community organisations. His current research is investigating sex-work regulatory models and health outcomes, and how vested interests and ‘morality politics’ impact public-health policy.

He is also a member of the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) and a management team-member of the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (SiREN).

Dr Judith Daire

Judith’s academic career commenced with a master’s degree in health management, policy and planning at Leeds University (UK) and she completed her PhD at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Her research interests include analysis and evaluation of government policies for maternal health, child health, sexual and reproductive health, universal health coverage, social development goals, and organisation of healthcare systems and their performance.

Big data and digital health

Digital health technologies will only increase in application in Australia and worldwide. Learn how to exploit big data, AI and machine learning and the powerful insights they provide to drive improvements in healthcare delivery and efficiency, and address major global challenges in health.

Note: Curtin is a core participant in the national research centre that is accelerating the implementation of digital health technologies across Australia.

Who the course is for
Our Big Data and Digital Health course will suit all health professionals and final-year students, and graduates from cross-disciplinary areas – such as science, technology and business – who are keen to capitalise on the growth in careers in health analytics.

Program leader: Dr Kim Betts
Dr Kim Betts is a biostatistician and epidemiologist, and a Curtin lecturer and researcher.

Public health

The demand for experts who can design, implement and promote intervention strategies able to address major health challenges will continue to strengthen, as will the drive to improve equity in health care.

Public health offers a graduate certificate, graduate diploma and an accelerated master degree with full credits at each level.

Take advantage of current government subsidies for these courses*
Save up to two-thirds on fees and upgrade your qualifications while there are subsidies on offer.
*Subsidies available for Australian and New Zealand citizens only 

Who the courses are for
Curtin’s Public Health courses are designed for medical, nursing and allied health professionals, as well as those in relevant cross-disciplinary areas such as social sciences, education, communications, business and management.

Program leader: Dr Gemma Crawford
Dr Gemma Crawford is a public health practitioner and Curtin lecturer and researcher with comprehensive industry, government and NGO experience. She is the national President of the Australian Health Promotion Association and its youngest life member.

Program leader: Dr Jonathan Hallett
Dr Jonathan Hallett is a Curtin lecturer and researcher in health promotion and public-health policy.

Health administration

Take your career to the next level and learn to navigate and embrace the complexities of leadership and management in the modern healthcare environment.

Health administration offers a graduate certificate, graduate diploma and master degree with full credits at each level.

Who the courses are for
Curtin’s courses in Health Administration are designed for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied health practitioners who wish to gain the management skills for leadership and governance roles.

Program leader: Dr Judith Daire
Dr Judith Daire is a lecturer at Curtin’s School of Population Health and has teaching and research experience in developed and developing countries. Judith also supervises research for PhD, MPhil, masters and honours students.

Government subsidies

Take advantage of current government subsidies for these courses*

Save up to two-thirds on fees and upgrade your qualifications while there are subsidies on offer.

*Subsidies available for Australian and New Zealand citizens only
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