Postgraduate Diploma in Disaster Risk Management and Development
Public Health
A course by
AUT
Learn how to reduce disaster risks, build community resilience, and manage disaster response and recovery in this postgraduate programme.
NZ$13,630
inc GST
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Core skills this course teaches
Disaster risk reduction
Understand and apply strategies to reduce risks associated with disasters in communities and organisations.
Building community resilience
Develop skills to foster resilience in communities at risk from natural hazards and emergencies.
About This Course
The Postgraduate Diploma in Disaster Risk Management and Development prepares students to manage increasingly complex disaster risks and foster community resilience. Combining best practice and practical skills, the programme addresses disasters and development, environmental change, humanitarian action, and the social and cultural dimensions of risk and resilience. Students benefit from flexible block courses, online learning and opportunities to incorporate focus areas in public health or trauma and holistic healing.
Course Content
- Disasters and development
- Environmental change and humanitarian action
- Building community resilience
- Communications in emergencies and disaster
- Public health and resilience
- Holistic healing from trauma
- Social and advanced epidemiology
- Digital transformation and change management
- Global health
- Public health policy and systems
- Māori and Pacific health research practice
- International public relations
- Leadership and management
Entry Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Build towards these roles
Disaster preparedness rolesHumanitarian response and recovery positionsNGOs (local/international)Emergency management agenciesMinistriesInternational organisations
Build skills in these industries
Disaster ManagementHumanitarian Sector
