Communicable Disease Control
PUBH5117
This fully online unit aims to provide students with an understanding of the burden of communicable diseases of public health significance in Australia, as well as the biology, epidemiology and surveillance for and control of those communicable diseases. By the end of this unit, the student will have the theoretical background to take up a position as a member of a Communicable Diseases section of a Commonwealth or State Health Department or Public Health Unit. It is expected that the students undertake an extra hour per week of reading, research and preparation for discussion.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 2
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: PUBH5117
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No
Our courses that offer this unit of study
- Master of Public Health
- Master of International Public Health
- Master of Medicine (Paediatric Medicine)
- Master of Public Health (Professional Practice)
- Graduate Diploma in Public Health
- Graduate Diploma in International Public Health
- Graduate Diploma in Paediatric Medicine
- Graduate Certificate in Paediatric Medicine
- Medicine Postgraduate Non-Degree
- Medicine Postgraduate Cross-Institutional