Professional Development Short Courses

You do not need to undertake a full Masters degree or Graduate Diploma to improve your skills in public health. At the Sydney School of Public Health we offer professional development short courses in nearly all areas of study. These can:

• increase your chances of promotion within your current workplace
• enable you to obtain the skills you need to transfer to a different position
• increase your competency and level of job satisfaction in your current position

Popular courses

Professional development courses are available in:

• Alcohol, drug use and health
• Environmental health
• Health issues and humanitarian emergencies
• Injury prevention
• Introduction to Analysis of Linked Data
• Introduction to Biostatistics
• Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology
• Introduction to Qualitative Health Research
• Multiple regression and statistical computing
• Tobacco control in the 21st century
• Ethics and mental health
• Human and animal research ethics
• Ethics and public health
• Clinical ethics

More short courses available

Almost any unit of study within the school can be taken as a professional development course.

Search the units of study in these key areas:

Public Health
International Public Health
Clinical Epidemiology
Health Policy
Qualitative Health Research

Course Structures

Some courses are offered as two-day or four-days workshops. Others are available one night a week for several weeks (usually seven).

For the specific structure of a unit of study, see the individual unit description.