Your first year is interprofessional and taken with other health sciences students. In the following years, you will specialise in the areas of health promotion and health and safety. You will learn how to promote health by developing people’s skills and knowledge, strengthening the ability of people to plan and undertake action to achieve better health, creating healthy environments and changing policies and laws to support healthy choices. The occupational health and safety component will equip you with skills to contribute proactively to risk management and assessment, and the prevention of injuries and disease in the workplace. You will participate in an on-campus health promotion campaign, undertake a 100-hour professional placement in workplace health promotion, and complete 200 hours of placements in health and safety. Fieldwork visits will also give you the chance to see health and safety in action.

Successful completion of one year of a Diploma of Specialist at a state institution or fully accredited private institution where separate evidence of English competence is required. IELTS 6.5 with no band lower than 6.0