Program Requirements

The Graduate Certificate of Applied Epidemiology requires completion of 24 units, which must consist of:

18 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

POPH8316 Outbreak Investigation

POPH8313 Analysis of Public Health Data

POPH8317 Public Health Surveillance

6 units from completion of 8000-level courses from the following subject areas:

POPH Population Health

CHMD Culture, Health and Medicine

MEDI Medicine

Admission Requirements

A Bachelor degree or international equivalent in a cognate discipline with an average mark of at least 60%

All applicants must meet the University’s English Language Admission Requirements for Students

Cognate disciplines

Epidemiology

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

1. demonstrate understanding of field and outbreak investigation and apply these to real life examples;
2. describe a public health surveillance system, determine a systems’ usefulness and evaluate the attributes of a surveillance system;
3. understand the context in which public health data are collected
4. perform a range of descriptive and analytical statistical analyses on public health datasets; and
5. apply the knowledge and experience gained from this Program to day-to-day work in a public health position.

Further Information