Public health focuses on preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health. It is founded upon a multidisciplinary understanding of health that allows you to explore and examine the basis of disease and well-being by considering the vagaries of human behaviour, the physical environment, the socio-economic and cultural determinants of health, and the systems of health care management.

The Bachelor of Science (Honours) Public Health field offers graduates an introduction to health-specific research. The program consists of a literature review, oral presentation, a course on thesis preparation and the research thesis itself.

Possible research areas include:

• the medical sciences
• medical and allied health
• public health
• indigenous health
• global health
• organisational communication
• health systems
• and many others

For further information on this plan and projects available, contact the School of Public Health.