The Graduate Certificate in Health Policy offers a critical perspective on how our health care system operates. It emphasizes the importance of power and value choices, focusing on the interaction of governments with the private and community sectors in shaping policy.

The Graduate Certificate in Health Policy extends the professional skills of students. By the end of the course students will understand the forces shaping the health policy environment, work with professional confidence across the health sector and become familiar with national and international health policy networks. Students will learn how to develop and implement helath policy through the application of knowldge to helath policy issues and analysis of current health policy direction, in Australia and globally.

Course completion requirements

The graduate certificate requires four compulsory units. Classes are conducted in intensive mode, including weekend workshops and Web-based learning.

On campus attendance pattern

Part time

End qualification

Graduate Certificate

Course level

Postgraduate Certificate

Handbook website link

http://www.usyd.edu.au/handbooks/medicine/00_deansmessage.shtml