A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 80 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless otherwise indicated.
| Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core (5 units) | 50cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 50 credit points as detailed below:
PHM526 Research Design PHM527 Research, Ethics and Impact (new title 2021) PHM552 Epidemiology PHM553 Biostatistics PHM588 Qualitative Research (new title 2021) |
Specialist Electives (3 units) | 30cp | Specialist Elective units from ANY of the following streams totalling 30 credit points: (Students planning to articulate to a Master of Public Health and complete with a 40cp research project must complete PHM567, PHM516 & PHM559 as specialist electives in the Graduate Diploma of Health Research to meet core requirements of both awards.)
Health Research Stream PHM517 Public Health Anthropology PHM519 Clinical Trials and Other Intervention Studies (replaces PHM524 from 2021) PHM525 Indigenous Health Research PHM570 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases
Public Health Stream PHM516 Indigenous Health PHM523 Health Promotion PHM529 Sexual and Reproductive Health PHM536 Health Systems, Planning and Evaluation (new title 2020) PHM554 Public Health Economics and Decision Making (new title 2020) PHM559 Health Policy PHM566 Chronic Conditions Control PHM567 Public Health PHM592 Global Health PHM593 Tropical Child and Adolescent Health (new title 2020) |
| | 80cp | Total Course Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure)