Graduate Diploma of Health and Human Services Management (107524E)

Students can gain the leadership, analytical and managerial skills needed to influence positive change in healthcare systems with the Graduate Diploma of Health and Human Services Management. They can set themselves up for senior roles in the health sector and use their platform to improve healthcare delivery and contribute to healthier communities.

Healthcare professionals are responsible for oversight of billions of taxpayer dollars that fund the sector. That is a significant responsibility, but it’s also an incredible opportunity to make positive changes that benefit individuals, communities and countries. With a Graduate Diploma of Health and Human Services Management, students will have a significant role to play not just in the allocation of precious resources, but also in the way healthcare organizations operate, evolve and deliver health services into the future.

The course is about more than just applying business and management skills in a health context. It explores what best practice looks like in the complex world of health services management. Everything students learn – and the way they learn – prepares them to navigate the exact challenges faced by health and human services professionals today.

During the Graduate Diploma of Health and Human Services Management students will complete credit points of study. They will have the opportunity to select from a range of elective units on topics like resource allocation and priority setting, healthcare operations, human resource management and more.

Students will develop core skills that allow them to make evidence-based decisions that improve the quality of health services. Upon successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Health and Human Services Management they will have the option of enhancing their skills by continuing on to the Master of Health and Human Services Management and will have already completed half of the credit points from the masters course.