This unit focuses on global health issues from a social-ecological public health perspective. You will explore the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as they relate to global public health and examine a range of public health issues including communicable disease, climate change, gender equity and food security. Key concepts covered in this unit include inequality, social justice, and human rights across a range of populations, regions, and contexts. Multi-sectoral partnerships at a local, national and international level will be analysed, in addition to a specific focus on the global engagement of stakeholders to support the implementation of the SDGs. You will have the opportunity to develop innovative public health interventions to address specific targets relating to the SDGs in a particular region or context using the theory of salutogenesis. A project proposal and grant application relating to one of the SDGs will be developed to address a specific public health challenge in a region or context of your choice.

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from SUTE

Generally, the students received this unit positively and have provided positive feedback. A few constructive feedback to note: 1. Group sizes for assessments should be set for everyone to be able to contribute enough and not rely on other group members 2. Tutorials were not recorded putting distance students at a disadvantage if could not attend.

1. For group assessment, small groups (member of 4-6) are formed, and clear instructions are provided for everyone to contribute in their group work. Students are encouraged to develop skills such as leadership, communication, coordination, presentation, group dynamics, and skills for addressing possible confusion/ misunderstanding while working with the groups etc. Efforts will be made to further strengthen such skills, so everyone make their meaningful contribution to the group work. 2. Lectures to the unit are pre-recorded and available in the Moodle for students to review prior to the weekly tutorials. The tutorials are to reinforce the teaching/ learning and engage students to the weekly tutorial exercise. All students including the students in the distance mode are given full access to the pre-recorded lecture as well as the unit contents including unit guide, assessment details, marking criteria, teaching/ learning resources etc. All students are given opportunities to communicate with teachers/ unit coordinator and also ask questions if they have, via different means including Moodle discussion forum, email, phone and during the tutorials etc. As an UC, the overall reflection to this unit is, students were generally engaged with the weekly tutorials and most of them showed greater interest for learning something new out of this unit. However, only small proportion of students reviewed pre-recorded weekly lecture available in the Moodle. In the future terms, students will be clearly suggested and communicated multiple times to encourage them to review the pre-recorded lecture prior to their weekly tutorial/s (both on-campus and online).

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