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Welcome to Public Health Workforce Development

This website offers information and resources about public health and public health workforce development. You will also find information about public health careers, job vacancies, scholarships, conferences and training opportunities.  Careersin public health make a difference to community health and wellbeing in New Zealand.  We welcome your feedback and contributions.
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LATEST NEWS

  

JUST THE JOB NEWS FLASH

TVNZ are repeating the Public Health Special programme from Series 5 of Just the Job on Sunday 5th February 2012 at 5.00pm on TV2. The programme profiles careers in Health Protection, Public Health Medicine and Community Health Work.  Just the Job is a TV series that gives high school students a unique up-close and personal insight into the myriad of career paths on their doorstep and elsewhere in New Zealand.  In each career, a high school student is mentored on-the-job for a day. The high school student gets a real taste of what the career is about. 

LATEST INFORMATION AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

 
 

 

READ MORE TUK Maori Workplan
                       2011 - 2017 


READ MORE TUK Newsletter - Issue 8
                       November 2011 

READ MORE TUK Workplan 2
010/2011 

                                                      

READ MORE TUK Progress Report 
                       2010/2011 
                
READ MORE Public Health Tertiary
                      Training Courses
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                       SEARCH TOOL
           
                                    

READ MORE Integrated Competencies Framework

                       Status Report December 2011


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 HEALTH  IMPROVEMENT AND
                      INNOVATION RESOURCE CENTRE

HIIRC is a source of knowledge to improve New Zealand's health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health the HIIRC supports performance and quality improvement efforts through:                          

  • an extensive Knowledge Library of literature

  • directories of individuals and organisations

  • access to improvement projects, tools and initiatives

  • the latest news, events and innovations



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                           

 

PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
Information and online application form
                                          

LEADERSHIP IN MAORI PUBLIC HEALTH
Course dates and application information

 

CERTIFICATE IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Building and delivering this qualification

HEALTH PROMOTION QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING IN 2012
Fees Grants Available

CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY TRAINING
Free online and face to face CALD training courses to help people develop cultural competence. 

HEALTH PROMOTION SHORT COURSE 
Certificate of Achievement in Introducing Health Promotion.  Students are introduced to the principles, concepts and practice of health promotion.   Courses are part time in two blocks of four days each.  


 

I N T E R E S T I N G  R E A D I N G

 

A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

Other Interesting Reading

View national and international articles, reports relevant to public health workforce development.