詹姆斯庫克大學

What to expect

Become a leader in health care and combine health-promotion management and knowledge of pharmaceutical services to enhance care delivery at a community level. You will learn how to apply research skills to priority areas in pharmacy and public health to create positive change.

Earn your degree while working with flexible online study. Select subjects relevant to your career goals and complete a pharmaceutical public health research project on a topic of your choosing.

Career Opportunities

JCU Pharmaceutical Public Health graduates have specialist skills that can be applied to a broad range within pharmaceutical services that will enhance service development.

Graduates are prepared to lead government, community and hospital services that deliver pharmaceutical care in both developed and developing countries.

As well as finding employment in a wide range of healthcare settings, you could go on to research and academic pharmacy.

Course learning outcomes

Graduates of the Master of Pharmaceutical Public Health will be able to:

Apply an advanced and integrated body of knowledge, including understanding of recent developments, in the specialty area of pharmaceutical public health across a range of contexts

Promote and optimise the provision of ethically and culturally appropriate pharmaceutical public health services within their area of professional practice, especially within rural, remote, Indigenous and tropical context

Synthesise and interpret complex and varied individual and population health presentations and data to design, implement and evaluate management plans, in response to stable, unpredictable and/or complex situations

Evaluate and apply established and evolving evidence to reflect critically on theory and professional practice in the area of pharmaceutical public health

Demonstrate a high level of personal autonomy and accountability for their own future professional development, and contribute to the professional development of others

Communicate and disseminate a broad range of pharmaceutical public health concepts and findings to both specialist and non-specialist audiences through high-level written and oral English language and numeracy skills

Apply knowledge of research principles and methods to design, plan and execute a substantial research-based project that is ethically and culturally-appropriate, and critically reflect upon implications of findings for pharmaceutical public health practice.