The Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management provides students with the theoretical and technical capacities for leadership roles in health service management in Australia or internationally.

The program provides the opportunity for health professionals to upskill, push their career forward, and improve their employability.

You will develop your professional judgement, and graduate with the essential knowledge and skills required to improve health services across a range of settings. The program fosters essential skills required for health management and leadership roles including strategic leadership, change management, workforce management, quality enhancement and decision making.

Through the graduate diploma, you can continue on to study the Master of Health Leadership and Management and associated dual and extension programs.

The Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management can be completed in one year of full-time study or 1.7 years part-time. The program is made up of six courses total, including:

• three core courses
• three elective courses

• Core courses
• Elective courses
• Articulation

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There’s strong demand for health management professionals in the public and private health sectors, both within Australia and globally. You’ll develop transferable leadership skills that can be applied throughout your career into senior management positions at health service and health system levels. Many of our graduates occupy senior executive, general management, health ministry and other health leadership roles in Australia and across the world.

This program is ideal if you’re looking for a career in:

• health services general management
• health services c-suite roles
• government and non-government policy
• medical communications
• medical insurance management
• non-government health service management
• health economics
• health program management
• health care consultancy.

Applicants are required to have either: An undergraduate degree in a field relevant to public health or health management AND Two years full-time professional or volunteer experience. This m

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