This double degree develops your expertise in both health promotion and occupational health and safety. As a graduate, you can choose to work within either discipline over your career, or you can pursue a career that combines both. Your first year is interprofessional and taken with other health sciences students.

In the following years, you’ll learn how to promote health by creating healthy environments, informing policies and laws to support healthy choices, and strengthening people’s ability to plan and take action to achieve healthier outcomes.

The occupational health and safety component gives you the skills to contribute proactively to risk management and assessment, and help prevent injuries and disease in the workplace.

You will participate in an on-campus health promotion campaign and in fieldwork visits so you can see health and safety in action. You'll also develop your practical skills by completing 350 hours in professional placements, in both health promotion and health and safety organisations.

Why study

• You'll gain practical and theoretical skills that are highly regarded by employers. 
• Staff bring practical and academic experience to their teaching. 
• The health promotion program is affiliated with the internationally acclaimed Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research, giving you opportunities to participate in new and innovative health promotion research.
• The health, safety and environment program has strong industry links through professional practice in workplaces and off-site field trips.

Professional recognition

This course is nationally accredited by the Australian Occupational Health and Safety Education Accreditation Board (Safety Institute of Australia); and recognised by the Australian Health Promotion Association, the Public Health Association of Australia and the Safety Institute of Australia.

Graduates are eligible for membership of the Australian Health Promotion Association, the Public Health Association of Australia,  the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists and the Safety Institute of Australia.

Careers

• Health Promotion officer
• Occupational health and safety officer
• Policy officer
• Workplace wellness coordinator
• Youth health coordinator.

Industries

• Community health
• International aid
• Local and state government
• Public and private health services
• Research and Development.