Health Management
'Meet the Masters' 2024:
Health Management and Health Data Analytics
Find out what it's like to study postgraduate education with us in this webinar featuring course coordinators Associate Professor Chris Moran, Dr Joanna Dipnall and Professor Andrew Forbes, as well as current students.
Courses
Uncover your leadership potential with our Master of Health Management. This course produces confident decision-makers who can effectively steer healthcare services through complex and challenging environments.
Health management stewardship carries broad responsibilities such as driving good clinical outcomes and patient experiences, ensuring programs are cost-effective yet efficient, staying abreast of latest technologies and managing a diverse, professional workforce.
Our course is targeted to middle and senior level medical and allied health professionals, nursing administrators, clinicians, quality managers and team leaders in the health workforce. By studying with us you will learn from highly qualified academics and industry specialists to gain advanced skills and knowledge across health systems law, finance, clinical leadership and management, governance, policy reform, interpretation of data and systems to lead change and innovation in the health care setting.
The course is taught online with block days of in-person teaching at the Alfred Hospital, where many of our lecturers have senior clinical roles. Our academic staff contribute to a rich portfolio of health services research found here.
Graduates are accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and the Australasian College of Health Services Management.
Career fields
Career fields include leadership roles in public health, hospitals, primary and community care, aged care services, not-for-profit, government & non-government sectors, international health, divisions of general practice, local government, health insurance companies, health planning and research.
Course Coordinators
"This course really gave me a more ‘systems’ mindset that I’ll apply to uplifting patient safety outcomes in the pharmacy space, and driving efficiencies through the digitisation of health data and processes. The diverse range of career backgrounds among my peers was a great opportunity to identify and work on shared challenges across the health system, and as a source of new ideas I can apply to my own field."
– Kaart Patnaikuni, Master of Health Management
"I enrolled in this course at a time when I wanted to take the next step up into leadership in Emergency Medicine. I actually landed a great role during my first semester of study. Studying leadership while learning the ropes in a senior management role was a fantastic way to immediately apply and consolidate my new skills, and I could use my study to wrangle everyday work challenges. It's a practical course that's given me transferrable skills, and a step up in my professional development I didn't quite realise was possible."
– Dr Philippus Visser, Master of Health Management