Course level

Postgraduate Coursework

Faculty

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

School

Public Health School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Attendance mode

In Person

Class hours

Lecture 2 Hours/ Week
Tutorial 2 Hours/ Week

Incompatible

PUBH7200

Assessment methods

Critical reflection

Presentation

Project Plan

Course enquiries

Dr Heena Akbar

Current course offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) Herston In Person Profile unavailable
Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) External External Profile unavailable

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Course description

This foundation course will advance your knowledge and skills for culturally safe public health practice, when working with First Nations Australian peoples to support community health and wellbeing. Utilising a strengths-based and decolonising lens, the course will explore strategies to enhance health and support the well-being of First Nations communities throughout different stages of life. We will encourage students to self-reflect on cross-cultural interactions to foster culturally safe practices and use critical self-reflexivity skills to analyse their cultural values and privileges when working with First Nations communities. Students will also examine how key historical factors and determinants of health sustain racial health inequities. Central to your learning in this course, is the foregrounding the voices, scholarship, and cultures of First nations peoples.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) Herston In Person Course Profile
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) Herston In Person Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) Herston Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) St Lucia Flexible Delivery Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2017 (24/07/2017 - 18/11/2017) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2016 (25/07/2016 - 19/11/2016) Herston Internal Course Profile