If you want an exciting career that stimulates you, challenges you, and rewards you, thebn a postgraduate degree in science sets you on the right path.

Completing further study beyond a Bachelor degree will enhance your chances of employment as well as advancement, as you will increase your knowledge in specific areas that interest you.

Course outline

This course enables students to undertake a combined PhD (in their chosen discipline) and Master of Infectious Diseases. Students must complete one of the three programs detailed below before submitting the thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Core units

Medical Microbiology program

• COMM7403 Science Communication - Community Presentations (6 points)
• MICR8829 Foundation of Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8830 Principles of Mycology and Parasitology (6 points)
• MICR8831 Molecular and Cellular Microbiology (12 points)
• PUBH8750 Epidemiology I (6 points)
• PUBH8761 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (6 points)
• SCIE2203 Bioinformatics (6 points)
• MICR8832 Recent Advances in Medical Microbiology (12 points)
• MICR8833 Antimicrobial Agents (6 points)

Tropical Infectious Diseases program

• COMM7403 Science Communication - Community Presentations (6 points)
• MICR8829 Foundation of Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8830 Principles of Mycology and Parasitology (6 points)
• MICR8831 Molecular and Cellular Microbiology (12 points)
• PUBH8750 Epidemiology I (6 points)
• PUBH8761 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (6 points)
• SCIE2203 Bioinformatics (6 points)
• MICR8834 Tropical, Travel and Remote Area Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8835 Vectors of Infectious Diseases and Vector Control (6 points)

Public and Environmental Health Microbiology program

• COMM7403 Science Communication - Community Presentations (6 points)
• MICR8829 Foundation of Infectious Diseases (12 points)
• MICR8830 Principles of Mycology and Parasitology (6 points)
• MICR8831 Molecular and Cellular Microbiology (12 points)
• PUBH8750 Epidemiology I (6 points)
• PUBH8761 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (6 points)
• SCIE2203 Bioinformatics (6 points)
• MICR8836 Public and Environmental Health Microbiology (12 points)
• MICR8837 Infectious Diseases of Public and Environmental Health Importance (6 points)

Note: Students continuing with the Doctor of Philosophy program will need to refer to information provided by the Graduate Research School.

Additional information for prospective candidates.

Admission requirements

An Honours degree of at least 2A level or a qualification recognised as equivalent by the Board of the Graduate Research School and the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences.

Domestic students

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

International students

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

Course enquiries

Infectious diseases website
Manager, Graduate Research and Scholarships(PhD) Professor Geoff Shellam
Telephone: +(61 8) 6488 3034/9346 2050 or email.