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Get prepared to work in a wide variety of roles in the New Zealand health sector. Find out about the areas of health you can specialise in.

Health Leadership and Management

Postgraduate

Develop the skills you need to advance your career in the health sector and become an expert in Health Leadership and Management.

Master the tools and models that enhance strategic thinking, decision-making and leadership. Improve your ability to collaborate with other health professionals to provide quality, people-centred leadership and management in the health sector.

Postgraduate study in Health Leadership and Management will teach you to facilitate better outcomes and improve effective management of complex health situations to deliver positive health experience to patients, whānau and communities.

Postgraduate qualifications

Duration 1 trimester
Complete 60 points
Location
Next starting dates7 Jul 2025, 23 Feb 2026 (+ -1 more)
Entry Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline You may also be required to demonstrate your proficiency in English.

Duration 2 trimesters
Complete 120 points
Location Wellington campuses and online
Next starting dates7 Jul 2025, 23 Feb 2026 (+ -1 more)
Entry Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline You may also be required to demonstrate your proficiency in English.

Duration 3 trimesters
Complete 180 points
Location Wellington campuses and online
Next starting dates7 Jul 2025, 23 Feb 2026 (+ -1 more)
Entry Bachelor of Health or a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline with an average grade of B or higher You may also be required to demonstrate your proficiency in English.

Example courses

Advanced Health Leadership and Management
Health Leadership and Management
Health Policy and Planning
This course will examine governance, policy, strategy, service-delivery and decision-making in the health sector. It will consider policy and service delivery issues: key institutions, influences and behaviours, and the roles of the public and private sectors in healthcare systems; the efficiency and quality of health services, and policies to reduce inequities in healthcare services and health outcomes for Māori, Pasifika and other disadvantaged groups. Participants will learn health economics and policy concepts and develop knowledge and skills to address policy and service delivery challenges; design and analyse options; advance health policy and service delivery goals and objectives and advise decision-makers.

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