systems, accountability, and decision-making across diverse health contexts.
Key Facts
Students pursue specialized research within a chosen field while developing advanced skills in analysis, evaluation, and applied health research. Research examines issues related to disease patterns, health outcomes, environmental influences, global health challenges, health information systems, workplace health, and healthcare performance. The programme prepares graduates for leadership roles in research, health policy, health planning, epidemiology, health informatics, program evaluation, and healthcare management across academic, governmental, and industry settings.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Health and Environment
- Health Evaluation
- Health Informatics
- Work and Health
- Population Health
- Health Policy
- Health Systems
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
- TOEFL iBT: 100
- PTE Academic: 68
- IELTS: 7.5
Other requirements
General requirements
- Students applying to the program should have completed a Master's degree (or its equivalent) with content related to ongoing faculty research in areas such as health, public health, health systems, gerontology, health informatics, global health, occupational health, and evaluation.
- A minimum 75% average in Master's level coursework
- Completion of a Master's degree and evidence of prior research achievements (e.g., Master's thesis, first author peer-reviewed publication, adjudicated research report).
- Students may be allowed to transfer into the PhD program directly from the School of Public Health Sciences (SPHS) Master's programs. Such students must have completed all Master's coursework requirements, have demonstrated a superior academic record, and have evidence of prior research achievements (e.g., adjudicated research report, significant documented contribution as a co-author to a peer-reviewed publication, first author peer-reviewed publication)
Tuition Fees
- International — 14,918 AUD / year (≈ 14,792 CAD / year)
- Domestic — 4,635 AUD / year (≈ 4,596 CAD / year)
Living costs
Waterloo, Canada
817–1,459 AUD / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
