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About the course
This Graduate Certificate of Health Economics introduces the economic principles shaping healthcare systems and policy decisions. You’ll study microeconomics applied to health, economic evaluation, and how resources are allocated and prioritised, building confidence in evidence-based decision making. Designed for clinical and non-clinical professionals (and those from finance backgrounds), it offers flexible online study and can provide a pathway into Deakin’s master’s-level health economics study.
Career outcome
Graduates can apply health economics tools to support funding, pricing and policy decisions across healthcare and related sectors. The course prepares you to contribute to economic evaluation, cost–benefit analysis, resource allocation and priority setting for programs, services, devices or insurance policies. Typical pathways include roles in government and health agencies, hospitals and health networks, insurers, consulting, NGOs and research-informed policy environments, using graduate-certificate-level skills in health economics.
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