The NSW Public Health Training Program is a three-year workplace-based training program offering a supervised learning experience for people who have completed postgraduate studies in public health and are committed to a career in public health.
The training program is widely recognised as a successful population health workforce initiative. Since 1990 the program has made a sustained contribution to the development of a skilled and flexible public health workforce in NSW.
Trainee Public Health Officers work across a range of workplace settings in population health. Learning is guided by a competency framework and the strategic and operational priorities of the NSW health system.
The training 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 (RACP). More information about specialist training in public health medicine can be found on the RACP website.
Employment outcomes
Upon successful completion of the training program, graduates receive a certificate of completion, conferred by the NSW Ministry of Health.
Graduates apply their expertise to many different spheres of public health practice, including public health services, research, development, policy and planning.
More than 90% of program graduates find work in public health-related roles. About three-quarters are employed by NSW Health immediately after completing the program, in roles such as epidemiologist, policy analyst, or project or program manager.