Health Communication

Contact

Dr Fiona Giles
Phone: + 61 2 9036 6272
Email: heathcomm@sydney.edu.au

See also: Media Practice, Publishing, Strategic Public Relations

Awards and Requirements

Graduate Certificate in Health Communication

4 units of study = 24 credit points

Graduate Diploma in Health Communication

6 units of study = 36 credit points

Master of Health Communication

8 units of study = 48 credit points

Units of study

Cores

• MECO6900 News Writing
• MECO6901 Dealing with the Media
• MECO6927 Organisational Communication
• PUBH5033 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Electives

• MECO6902 Legal & Ethical Issues in Media Practice
• MECO6904 Dissertation Part 1*
• MECO6905 Dissertation Part 2*
• MECO6928 Media and Communication Internship*
• ARTS7000 Academic Communication for Postgraduates
• HPOL5000 Introduction to Health Policy
• HPOL5001 Economics and Finance for Health Policy
• HPOL5003 Analysing Health Policy
• MIPH5014 International Health Promotion (4)
• MIPH5112 Disease Control in Developing Countries (4)
• MIPH5115 Women's and Children's Health (4)
• MIPH5116 Culture, Health, Illness and Medicine (4)
• MIPH5117 Diseases of Modernisation (2)
• MIPH 5118 Global Perspectives on HIV/AIDS (4)
• MIPH5124 Health Issues and Humanitarian Emergencies (4)
• PUBH5024 Global Obesity and Health Promotion
• PUBH5019 Cancer Prevention and Control
• PUBH5101 Special Project in Public Health 1 (4)
• PUBH5102 Special Project in Public Health 2 (2)
• PUBH5111 Environmental Health (4)
• PUBH5113 International Health (4)
• PUBH5114 Alcohol and Drug Use and Health (4)
• PUBH5418 Tobacco Control in the 21st Century
• CISS6004 Disease and Security

Core units of study. Master candidates complete four core units of study; Graduate Diploma candidates complete three core units of study; Graduate Certificate student complete two core units of study.
*Department permission required. The dissertation and internship units of study are available to Master of Health Communication candidates only.
Some MIPH/PUBH units of study are offered partly online.
(2) = 2 credit points - must be taken with a 4 credit point unit.
(4) = 4 credit points - must be taken with a 2 credit point unit.