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GLOH5102: Skills for Working in Global Health
2025 unit information
This core unit for the Master of Global Health will develop your awareness of the key practical skills for working in the field of global health. The content is grounded in global health concerns and aims to equip you with the core competencies to work in this complex field. The skills that you will develop will fall within three broad categories: 1. Situational assessment and understanding of local contexts, as well as the evidence and knowledge that shapes, describes and responds to global inequities - this will draw on your foundational understanding of methods developed in other MGH core units. 2. Communication (both oral and written) to tailor persuasive messaging to different audiences, including redressing misinformation, and fostering trust. You will also begin to develop your own critical and reflexive practice through an introduction to positionality, power, and privilege. 3. Strategically appraising and applying influence to maximise impact on reducing inequities. This interactive unit teaches both the principles of the skills and offers opportunities for you to practise and hone these skills for yourself. You will apply these skills to case studies, which you will develop over the course of the semester.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. analyse complex global health problems and context to identify causes of ill health, and describe interactions between biomedical, social, cultural, ecological, political, and economic determinants of health
- LO2. appraise a range of (e.g. public health, epidemiological, and sociological) evidences and evaluate relevance to a variety of global health contexts
- LO3. investigate and assess the complex interaction between public health and socio-political-economic-cultural structures
- LO4. design research to generate credible evidence to inform development of effective, sustainable policy, and programmatic responses by applying appropriate research principles and methodologies in a range of contexts
- LO5. demonstrate an understanding of how to communicate effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders, across a range of channels, to generate support for research, and influence policy and programme design, that promotes health and prevents disease
- LO6. develop and maintain productive interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaborations with diverse groups across cultural boundaries.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 1 2024
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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