Master of Public Health

Michelle Gayer
Master of Public Health
Medical Officer, Disease Control in Humanitarian
Emergencies, World Health Organisation (WHO)

"I provide technical and operational support on communicable disease control in humanitarian emergencies. I did my MPH full-time but in two separate blocks broken up by a field posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Malawi, Africa. I then went on to further postings in Sierra Leone and Burundi. My field experience and the work I did in collaboration with WHO at country level during this time led to a recommendation for my current position. The basic principles of public health are essential to my work and I always come back to them. I was taught by some very reputable professors who where world leaders in their area. Their professionalism motivated me to excel."

Nicole Cousens
Master of Public Health 2006
Current Honours student

"I originally wanted to begin a PhD in an area of public health that I had a great interest in, however did not have any research skills or experience. I therefore wanted to learn more about how to conduct public health research. Someone who I looked up to in the area that I wanted to complete a PhD in, suggested that I should complete a MPH at the University of Sydney before beginning a PhD. The MPH was an extremely useful and interesting course. I particularly found the statistics and epidemiology courses in first semester very useful as well as the other epidemiology and research courses that I studied in second semester, as these very much assisted me with my research job at the time.

It is a very practical course, where most of the content is taught in a way in which it relates back to real public health scenarios or research projects so that it is always interesting. I definitely recommend the MPH to anyone who is interested in public health, wants to further their career in public health and/or wants to improve their skills in public health research."