该文凭课程对理论和实践问题以及将这些原则应用于工作场所，研究和日常生活的技巧提供了高级理解。它涵盖了一系列活动和学科，包括流行病学，人口统计学，社会学，健康统计，健康经济学，健康促进，健康管理，健康保护，环境健康和健康服务以及政策。公共卫生计划中的该专业课程强调循证医学的方法，该方法以证据为基础，肯定了麻利人的权利，并以对卫生中种族不平等的批判性分析为中心。这种方法检查了卫生资源和决定因素在社会上的不平等分配，以查明如何造成和维持健康方面的不平等，以及如何减少和消除这些不平等。
Help reduce the burden of disease and injury and improve the quality of health care delivery in public health. This diploma provides an advanced understanding of the theoretical and practical issues and the skills to apply these principles in the workplace, research and day-to-day life. It covers a range of activities and disciplines including epidemiology, demography, sociology, health statistics, health economics, health promotion, health management, health protection, environmental health and health services and policy. The courses for this specialisation in the public health programme emphasise an approach to Māori health that is evidence-based, affirms Māori rights, and is centred on a critical analysis of ethnic inequalities in health. This approach examines the unequal social distribution of health resources and determinants to identify how inequalities in health are created and maintained, and how they can be reduced and eliminated.