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Crafting a career with meaning.

Debra thought she wanted a clinical, patient-focused health career. But a Bachelor of Public Health with research has opened up a new world of meaningful career opportunities.

Through her many years living abroad and raising her children, Debra Loty’s love of actively contributing to society, particularly in the field of health, lead her into a variety of roles and training, including volunteering as a hazmat trained first responder.

When visa issues meant she couldn’t take up offers of study while living in the UK, Debra looked around for alternatives. With her kids now independent, she gravitated to �����Ʊ’s Bachelor of Public Health (BPH). 

“I thought I wanted a clinical role. But I came across the BPH at �����Ʊ and thought, ‘Hey, this is a different approach for entering the health sector’. It ticked a lot of boxes for me.”

One of those boxes was the ability to do the BPH 100% online. Debra and her family were living in Singapore when she enrolled, during Covid in 2020. 

Without a clear idea of a career, Debra began her BPH open to anything. Its broad scope, while a little overwhelming, was appealing because it allowed her to gain an understanding of the wide variety of fields that exist in public health. It was the final couple of courses that helped her pull all of her thoughts and options together, as she began looking at the next steps available to her.

“I think there’s a lot of degrees that create quite specific skill sets and the subsequent career paths can be relatively clear and defined. By comparison, a BPH is quite flexible and really caters for people’s individual interests. The open-ended nature of public health is a little daunting… And this is widely acknowledged by the course convenors, because many students have asked these questions before – What do I do now? What’s the next step? What are the potential avenues I could go down?... your options are only limited by your interests.”