公共卫生研究生文凭课程是CQUniversity公共卫生课程套件的一部分。它继续将健康的社会生态模型应用到公共健康教育中。该模型与当代公共卫生趋势和挑战紧密结合，为社会变革提供了创新干预措施的基础。与传统上侧重于健康医学模型的其他公共卫生课程不同，CQUniversity的公共卫生研究生文凭课程还将结合公共卫生技能，知识和实践的社会视角。公共卫生研究生文凭的内容比公共卫生研究生证书的内容更深，并且提供了将公共卫生研究与其他研究领域相结合的多学科和跨学科的机会。
The Graduate Diploma of Public Health is part of the CQUniversity suite of Public Health courses. It continues the application of a social-ecological model of health to public health education. This model which is strongly aligned with contemporary trends and challenges in public health provides the basis for innovative interventions for social change. Unlike other Public Health courses that traditionally focus on the medical model of health, the Graduate Diploma of Public Health at CQUniversity will also incorporate a social perspective of public health skills, knowledge and practice. The Graduate Diploma of Public Health has more depth of content than the Graduate Certificate in Public Health and includes a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary opportunity to combine your public health studies with another field of study.<br><br>This innovative course will explore the origins and evolution of public health and the underlying principles of community-based and community-led public health. The social-ecological model of health forms the basis of the Graduate Diploma in Public Health. You will be introduced to complex adaptive systems thinking and how this influences how we think about public health.<br><br>This approach reflects contemporary trends in public health and provides the basis of innovative interventions for social change. You will undertake units that outline the origins and evolution of public health and the underlying principles of community-based and community-led public health. You will explore fundamental concepts associated with these principles, including complex adaptive systems thinking, social and environmental determinants of health, social epidemiology, social justice, partnership development and participatory research. You will have the opportunity to apply these concepts in practical ways in both strengths-based and disease-prevention approaches.