About Health Sciences
> The School of Population Health offers a comprehensive teaching program that covers
   key topics including International Health, Public Health, Health Studies (including
   Addiction Studies and Clinical Epidemiology), Nutrition, Indigenous Health, Tropical
   Health and Biostatistics.
> Students have access to a wide variety of study areas, with options for formal and informal
   practical experience.
> Strong collaborations exist with the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank,
   leading international academic institutions and national and international government
   agencies.
> The School of Human Movement Studies offers the premier sport, exercise, movement
   and physical activity program in Australia. Study Abroad and Exchange students study with
   some of Australia’s most respected lecturers and with Australia’s brightest students
   across a wide breadth of areas including skill acquisition and biomechanics; the 
   physiology and psychology of exercise and sport; the history of sport, exercise and leisure;
   and the place of physical activity in society.
> Practical opportunities are available for training, testing and research assistance.
> The Exercise Science program is accredited by the Australian Association for Exercise
   and Sports Science and the Education program is accredited by the Queensland College
   of Teachers.
 

Featured courses:

International Health Policy PUBH7645
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the roles of key stakeholders in international health policy, and to explore major international developments. It will give an insight into the Global Burden of Disease project, the evaluation of cost-effective interventions, comparative health systems and assessment of their performance, and trends in development assistance and health sector reform, using specifi c international health policy examples. Specifi c topics include globalisation and international health; key players in international health; health system performance; comparative health systems; trends in development assistance; setting priorities for policy; and HIV/AIDS policy and programs.

Australian Sport History HIST3002
This course has three interconnected dimensions: it examines the process of remembering and forgetting in the history of Australian sport; it critically analyses many of Australia’s sporting icons, such as Don Bradman, Les Darcy, Dawn Fraser, Phar Lap, Alick Wickham and Duke Kahanamoku through dominant cultural discourses; and, fi nally, it looks at the history of Australian sport through documentaries, fi lms, monuments and museums.
 

Other courses of interest:

A full list of courses available to Study Abroad and Exchange students can be found on UQ’s Courses and Programs website.