Study Public Health at ANU
Do you care about the health and medical care of people around the world? The Master of Public Health will give you the skills and experience you need to get into the public health and population health sector, either through research or the workforce.
It offers a unique mix of applied education and practical techniques tackling contemporary global health problems.
The program is offered both online or in person, and has an advanced option available that incorporates a research project. The courses will teach you basic knowledge and incorporate electives to allow you to follow your interests. The skills you learn can be workplace-related.
Your teachers will be practicing researchers who bring to the classroom their findings from case studies and the field, including their work from on the frontlines of COVID-19.
You'll also have access to leading practitioners as guest lecturers, thanks to our close relationships with government departments and industry bodies in Canberra.
Master of Public Health
You will graduate from the Master of Public Health with knowledge of globally significant fields including ageing, mental health, health services research, global health, chronic disease epidemiology, environment, climate and health, infectious disease epidemiology and modelling, and society, culture and health.
Advanced program
The Advanced program provides you with the opportunity to extend your practical, coursework experience in public health with the development and implementation of a research project. It is particularly relevant if you want to benefit from the research strengths of ANU and its ready access to the local and national health administration policy scenes.
Read Advanced program handbook
Key facts
- 2 years full-time
- Semester 1 & 2 intake
- Study full time or part time
- Study in person or online
- Advanced option available
- Prior learning recognised
- #1 in Australia for graduate employability (Times Higher Education)
Careers
A Master of Public Health from ANU is an internationally-recognised population health qualification. You will graduate with the skills to improve the mental and physical health of a whole population. You can find work in Australia and overseas in non-government organisations, primary health care, policy roles, research and private consultancies.
The Australian National University has been ranked as the top university for graduate employability in Australia in the Global University Employability Ranking 2023-24.
As a student at ANU, you gain access to the ANU CareerHub—an online career development and employability tool that includes a jobs board and careers resources. You also have access to drop-in chats with a career consultant and to attend our career fairs to meet potential employers.
The Master of Public Health gives you a step up.
Read moreLearning experience
Exploring the uncharted territory of public health research
The Bachelor-Masters vertical double degree pathway enabled Jasmine Pearson to become among the first to analyse how Australians engage with drug checking services.
Discover Jasmine's journey
Translating skills into health policy and practice
Sarp Kaya always wanted to work at Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and studying a Master of Public Health helped him reach that goal.
Find out more about Sarp's internship
A balancing act of full-time work and online study
Working full-time, Sai Lyons has found time to do her Masters with an all online program.
Read how Sai did it
Gain the skills needed to fight disease
“The public health program is diverse and flexible, where I get to choose the subjects I am interested in. I plan to return home after graduating and put my new skills to use, working on disease prevention. I did my undergrad in microbiology in Botswana, then studied and practiced teaching for twenty years, and found an interest in public health.” Malebogo Solomon
Master of Public Health Information Seminar
Find out more about this innovative and applied course with this online information session.
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Fees
Please visit the Programs and Courses website for information about fees.
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Whether you are looking for financial support to start your studies at ANU or help to move away from home for the first time, we have scholarship opportunities for you and your situation.
Key people
Dr Matthew Kelly
Dr Kelly is the Program Convenor for the Master of Public Health and Graduate Certificate of Public Health at ANU. He is also a lecturer in Global Population Health and other courses. Dr Kelly’s research addresses the major health challenges of the Asia-Pacific region including work on global health and health transitions; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); Neglected Tropical Diseases; burden of disease assessment, particularly for mortality; and public health nutrition. He works in collaboration with the World Health Organization and a network of Ministries of Health and leading regional universities in Southeast Asia including in Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia and Timor-Leste.
Dr Andini Pramono
Andini is the Convenor of the Social and Cultural Determinants of Health course for the MPH program. She is a public health researcher with a PhD in Population Health, and is an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Her research focuses on maternal and child health, breastfeeding policy, and health equity. She is a Chief Investigator on an MRFF-funded project on scaling up the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.
Dr Haribondhu Sarma
Dr Haribondhu Sarma is a Senior Lecturer at NCEPH and convenes the Global Population Health course in the Master of Public Health program. He also lectures on Research Methods, Infectious Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Implementation Science in Global Health. With over 20 years of global health research experience, his work focuses on health systems, nutrition, and the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries across Asia and Africa.
Dr Michael Tong
Dr Michael Tong is the Convenor of the Human Health, Environment and Climate Change course and a Senior Research Fellow at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. He is an experienced researcher in medical science and public health, with expertise in environmental health, epidemiology, risk assessment, climate change, health cost evaluation, and vulnerable population health. His work focuses on environmental and climate-related health risk assessment and adaptation in Australia and globally.