Do you work in a public health, clinical health, scientific, or food production environment and need to know about how to prevent and minimise the spread of infection?
Our graduate courses are not only for nurses and other clinical staff, but anyone whose field of work involves the potential for infection transmission, such as scientists, lab technicians or allied health workers.
In this one-year Graduate Diploma you develop your skills and knowledge in microbiology, epidemiology and epidemiological research, and learn best-practice strategies to prevent and minimise the spread of infectious organisms.
Leadership is a strong focus of this course and using evidence-based research, you explore leadership issues and how they relate to the implementation and coordination of infection risk management.
You'll also learn whats involved in delivering effective monitoring and quality assurance programmes.
If you've already completed the Graduate Certificate in Infection Risk Management, you can finish this course in 19 weeks (full time).
Upon successfully completing the requirements you'll receive the award of:
Graduate Diploma in Infection Risk Management
Additional awards included:
Graduate Certificate in Infection Risk Management
Career opportunities
Employment in the areas of:
public health or health monitoring
education
science or environmental analysis
food production
auditing
communicable diseases
local government
as an infection prevention and control clinician
Further Study Options
Master of Applied Professional Studies (Infection Prevention and Control)
September 2025
Mokoia Campus
Rotorua,
Rotorua,
Auckland,
3015, North Island, New Zealand
You must:
hold an undergraduate degree in any discipline, OR
hold a Level 6 diploma in a relevant field, OR
be able to demonstrate equivalent practical, professional or educational experience.
IELTS Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5 or completed New Zealand Certificate in English Language Level 4 with the Academic Endorsement or meets a relevant English Proficiency Outcome as outlined by NZQA; TOEFL Internet-based Test (iBT) score of 60 (with a writing score of 18); Cambridge English Qualifications: B2 First or B2 First for schools or C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill; OET: Minimum of Grade C or 200 in all sub-tests; PTE (Academic) score of 50 with no band score lower than 42.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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