NSW Public Health Officer Training Program
The NSW Public Health Officer Training Program is a 3-year service based training program offering supervised experience for people who have completed postgraduate studies in public health and who are committed to a career in public health.
The Program is delivered by the NSW Department of Health in partnership with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales. More information about this partnership can be found in the March issue of the University of NSW Globe Newsletter.
University of NSW Globe Newsletter
The Program is recognised for the training of medical graduates towards Fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. More information about the Faculty Training Program can be found on the Faculty website
Mission
To improve the health of the people of NSW by contributing to the current and emerging needs of public health practice within NSW and Australia through providing leading public health service based higher education grounded in scholarship, collaborative relationships and evidence-based practice.
Strategic Goals
- Develop career paths within the NSW health system for high achieving postgraduates in disciplinary areas relevant to public health practice.
- Contribute to an appropriately skilled and sustainable public health workforce in NSW by developing public health professionals able to fill senior public health positions.
- Provide the capacity to respond to workforce development needs of specialist areas within public health, the public health aspects of other specialist areas and emerging public health needs.
- Provide NSW Health with an immediate surge capacity of skilled practitioners able to respond to a variety of public health risks particularly in the event of emergencies and/or outbreaks of infectious diseases.