This joint degree offers leadership and management training, combined with a range of public health skills. It is designed for health professionals with a suitable undergraduate degree or recognised professional qualification in a relevant discipline. 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 is available in Townsville and can be studied either full-time or part-time. It is available in block mode. 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. Upon successful completion of the MPH component of the MPH-MBA, graduates will be able to: Devise appropriate strategies to detect, prevent and control communicable and non-communicable diseases ensuring safe and healthy environments for tropical, rural, remote and Indigenous communities Critically assess, analyse and communicate public health information relevant to tropical, rural, remote and Indigenous communities Communicate theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions through advanced literacy and numeracy skills to specialist and non-specialist audiences Critically reflect upon the socio-ecological nature of health promotion and its application in optimising the health and wellbeing of tropical, rural, remote and Indigenous communities Critically reflect upon and engage in professional public health practice based on ethical decision-making and an evidence based approach, including consideration of recent developments in the field Apply advanced human, project and organisational management skills within a public health and policy context to effect efficient and equitable gains in public health Apply knowledge of research principles and methods to plan and ethically execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship.