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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in Graduate Certificate in Systems Medicine or Graduate Diploma in Systems Medicine or Master of Systems Medicine (Research).

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Communicate the impact of the environment on infant, childhood and adult health, giving concrete examples of diseases with their origins.

2.

Establish the role that omics platforms have played in advancing clinical knowledge in disease.

3.

Provide an overview of the role of the microbiome in health.

4.

Develop a broad knowledge on the benefits and limitations of applying omics technologies in clinical investigations.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

This unit aims to give a broad overview of examples of systems medicine approaches to addressing health challenges. Examples of topics to be addressed include:

• Overview of systems medicine in neonatology
• Impact of the in utero environment on birth outcomes
• Childhood infectious diseases

• Overview of systems medicine in cardiometabolic health
• Genome and metabolome wide association studies involving cardiovascular diseases of
cardiometabolic diseases
• The role of nutrition and exercise in the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases

• Overview of neurodegeneration and approaches used to understand the mechanisms behind the pathology of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases.
• Gut-brain communication via the nervous system, immune system and direct chemical signalling.
• Complex gene-environment interactions in neuropathology.