The overall aim of this course is to educate a category of professionals in the areas of health, physical activity and wellbeing. Graduates will have the skills necessary to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual, community-based and population-level lifestyle interventions and physical activity programmes and policies.

Graduates will gain, through theory, research and practice, the knowledge, skills and competencies required to shape and respond to public policy using a multidisciplinary approach to addressing sedentary behaviour, physical activity and health. There are four subject streams within the course comprising of health, science, exercise science, health research and communicating the health message.