Graduate Diploma in Infectious Disease

Are you a science graduate or professional looking to further your knowledge and develop specialist expertise around infectious diseases? This important field is ever evolving, with ongoing advancements in research and practice. Join leading scientists in combatting the persistent threat infectious diseases pose to individuals and communities globally.

As a graduate from this course, you’ll have specialist knowledge in infectious disease outbreak and control. You will learn from leading scientists in infectious disease research and gain practical lab experience.

3 reasons to study Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control at Murdoch

1. Murdoch’s Perth campus hosts several world-class molecular research centres, including the Anti-microbial Resistance and Infectious Disease Laboratory, Australian National Phenome Centre, Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, the State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, and the CrypTick.
2. Learn among researchers who have been ranked ‘above’ world standard for medical microbiology, immunology and genetics.
3. Learn by doing, with extensive laboratory content throughout the course to ensure you acquire practical skills and reinforce theoretical principles.

What you’ll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. During your studies you will learn to:

• Identify bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal pathogens.
• Form action or management plans to solve problems in pathogen disease outbreaks and routine surveillance.
• Understand infectious disease and consider the interaction between pathogens and host organisms.
• Use new cutting-edge methodologies in molecular science and how to handle and visualise large data sets to inform infectious disease management and research.
• Understand vaccines and vaccine development and how to discover new anti-microbial agents.
• Critically review scientific research and literature on infectious disease.

Your future career

As a graduate, you may find employment in both the public and private sectors. Your skills in medical microbiology may be applied across a wide range of industries including:

• Government agencies and departments of health
• International health organisations and NGOs
• Food production and safety
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Medical biotechnology companies
• Medical diagnostic industry, and
• Infectious disease research.