Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Gain specialist skills for an exciting and rewarding career with the Graduate Certificate of Aeromedical Retrieval at JCU. Graduate with the expertise to manage patient transportation in fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters in both domestic and international contexts.

Equip yourself with the specialist skills to help control, eliminate and eradicate communicable diseases locally, regional or internationally.

Learn how to provide effective self-management education to people with or at-risk of diabetes throughout their lives.

Build upon your current healthcare knowledge and learn from award-winning lecturers and experts.

Learn how to improve clinical teaching in all health professions, including medicine, nursing, dentistry and allied health. You will develop a conceptual framework for teaching, learning and research in the health context and across multiple health professions.

Develop the skills to implement effective infection prevention and control procedures within hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Specialise in public health issues relevant to Australia, the Tropics, and developing nations worldwide.

Gain specialist knowledge and technical skills across a range of health contexts, with a strong focus on evidence-based learning.

Gain the essential research processes and skills required to complete higher degrees by research in tropical health and medicine.

Appraise travel risks and their mitigation strategies and promote health education to travellers.

Gain a valued qualification from a leading university in rural and remote health in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. This course is for health professionals who aspire to work in a lead role in health education and research.

Enrich your career by specialising in public health issues relevant to tropical Australia and its near neighbours. Gain valuable skills important for delivering health outcomes to rural and tropical areas.

Expand your technical proficiency to design, manage, and evaluate rehabilitation plans for individuals and communities in culturally diverse populations. You will learn to develop solutions for complex problems in health professional practice.

Develop the skills to excel in research. This course will prepare you to further your studies in an MPhil or PhD program.

This program is designed to provide medical practitioners, particularly those based in rural and remote communities, with a pathway for advancing their academic and clinical expertise.