Postgraduate Certificate in Health Sciences in Digital Health (Online)

The PGCertHSc in Digital Health is a 60-point programme that comprises 4 15-point courses. Each course runs over a 12-week teaching period, allowing you to complete this programme in as little as two Semesters part-time, taking two courses at a time (30-points per term). 

To complete this programme, you will be required to take, DIGIHTLH 701, 30 points from DIGIHLTH 702-706 and 15 points from DIGIHLTH 702-706, POPLHLTH 724 or POPLHLTH 760. 

Please note that Auckland Online courses are scheduled on rotation, so your course progression will be largely predetermined depending on when you start your programme of study. In instances where there are specific course prerequisites within the programme itself, we will ensure that you are enrolled in the correct courses to achieve your goals.

As a graduate of the PGCertHSc in Digital Health, you will be able to develop the following skills depending on the courses you take:  

• Differentiate, critique, deconstruct and synthesize existing theoretical knowledge and integrate it within your own understandings of digital health contexts and practice.
• Critique research and your own practice or professional viewpoints, drawing on a sophisticated understanding of concepts and theories and applying them to a range of digital health practices and contexts.
• Critically reflect on the ways in which different theoretical approaches inform current practices in and understandings of digital health.
• Reflect on, and articulate, the ways in which different perspectives and theoretical approaches inform and challenge your personal and professional viewpoints, understandings and actions.
• Explore potential digital health solutions to known health problems in a guided enquiry, accounting for the complexity of the digital health environment and known constraints in the health system.
• Contrast recognized digital health models and approaches to improve health systems, structures or outcomes for communities, articulating findings and implications in a systematic manner.
• Consider and apply appropriate communication and disciplinary models, strategies and frameworks to communicate evidence-based information with individuals or groups.
• Select appropriate media, technologies and techniques that will engage diverse communities or population groups to communicate findings, evidence and solutions.
• Undertake and initiate inquiry within digital health, developing a credible academic stance and following accepted academic processes and procedures in the completion of coursework and research inquiry.
• Consistently apply ethical principles, culturally safe practices and academic conventions in your academic work, demonstrating respect for those individuals, groups and health services whose contexts you draw on in your coursework.
• Consider the effect of past and current approaches to supporting Hauora Māori (Māori health) and your alignment with the Treaty of Waitangi.
• Explore where your contribution and practice in digital health can give voice to improving health equity within a range of contexts and drawing on evidence.

The PGCertHSc in Digital Health is a 60-point programme that comprises 4 15-point courses. Each course runs over a 12-week teaching period, allowing you to complete this programme in as little as two Semesters part-time, taking two courses at a time (30-points per term). 

To complete this programme, you will be required to take, DIGIHTLH 701, 30 points from DIGIHLTH 702-706 and 15 points from DIGIHLTH 702-706, POPLHLTH 724 or POPLHLTH 760. 

Please note that Auckland Online courses are scheduled on rotation, so your course progression will be largely predetermined depending on when you start your programme of study. In instances where there are specific course prerequisites within the programme itself, we will ensure that you are enrolled in the correct courses to achieve your goals.

As a graduate of the PGCertHSc in Digital Health, you will be able to develop the following skills depending on the courses you take:  

• Differentiate, critique, deconstruct and synthesize existing theoretical knowledge and integrate it within your own understandings of digital health contexts and practice.
• Critique research and your own practice or professional viewpoints, drawing on a sophisticated understanding of concepts and theories and applying them to a range of digital health practices and contexts.
• Critically reflect on the ways in which different theoretical approaches inform current practices in and understandings of digital health.
• Reflect on, and articulate, the ways in which different perspectives and theoretical approaches inform and challenge your personal and professional viewpoints, understandings and actions.
• Explore potential digital health solutions to known health problems in a guided enquiry, accounting for the complexity of the digital health environment and known constraints in the health system.
• Contrast recognized digital health models and approaches to improve health systems, structures or outcomes for communities, articulating findings and implications in a systematic manner.
• Consider and apply appropriate communication and disciplinary models, strategies and frameworks to communicate evidence-based information with individuals or groups.
• Select appropriate media, technologies and techniques that will engage diverse communities or population groups to communicate findings, evidence and solutions.
• Undertake and initiate inquiry within digital health, developing a credible academic stance and following accepted academic processes and procedures in the completion of coursework and research inquiry.
• Consistently apply ethical principles, culturally safe practices and academic conventions in your academic work, demonstrating respect for those individuals, groups and health services whose contexts you draw on in your coursework.
• Consider the effect of past and current approaches to supporting Hauora Māori (Māori health) and your alignment with the Treaty of Waitangi.
• Explore where your contribution and practice in digital health can give voice to improving health equity within a range of contexts and drawing on evidence.