詹姆斯库克大学

What to expect

This joint master enables health professionals to gain advanced management skills while undertaking further study in the area of their specialisation.

The program aims to develop the following knowledge and skills:

• Understanding current major health and management issues
• managing information and human financial resources within health care delivery organisations
• critical analysis by health managers in the context of national and global economic and political environments
• identification and analysis of management issues in health care delivery organisations and the identification of appropriate solutions.

How you will study

This course can be studied at JCU's Townsville campus or online. It is available either full-time or part-time.

Career Opportunities

JCU Public Health and Business Administration graduates are uniquely equipped to be leaders in health care.

Graduates go on to work in public and private healthcare positions, including management, marketing, research, and economics.

You could find employment as a healthcare professional with a focus on travel, tropical and rural areas, developing countries, disease management or Indigenous health care. You could also work as a policy officer, healthcare administrator, epidemiologist, community health worker, management consultant, CEO, research associate or project coordinator.

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.