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Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Well-being and Health INSIGHT: Transforming Health and Well-being

Delivering world-leading innovative solutions to transform well-being and health.

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Our vision

The UTS Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Well-being and Health is transforming health outcomes in our community by improving clinical care and health, driving responsive health policy, informing sustainable models of health care and health systems, and building the health care and health research workforce of the future.

INSIGHT is reimagining health research by engaging researchers across disciplinary boundaries, industry and consumers in collaborative ways to solve complex real-world health problems.

Our focus

  • We focus on the health and wellbeing of

    ► Older people
    ► Women and children
    ► Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
    ► People living with dementia, chronic disease and palliative conditions

  • We positively impact

    ► Clinical practice
    ► Health services
    ► Health workforce
    ► Policy and funding models
    ► Social care and communities

  • We advance solutions for

    ► Technology and digital  health
    ► The health response to  climate change

  • We tackle solutions at the level of

    ► Individuals
    ► Communities
    ► Nationally
    ► Globally

  • We work in partnership with

    ► Consumers and communities
    ► Health
    ► Industry
    ► Government
    ► Researchers

  • We have strong methodological foundations for scientific excellence

    ► Biostatistics & Epidemiology
    ► Health Economics
    ► Data linkage
    ► Clinical trials
    ► Qualitative methodologies
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Our impact

With social justice at our core, INSIGHT is committed to addressing health inequity in line with the sustainable development goals.

Our research takes a person-centred, life-course approach underpinned by the responsible use of technology that harnesses data-based decision making. These values stand out in our strong research translation track record, where we deliver solutions that are locally and globally meaningful, making a real difference to people’s lives.

  • Director's welcome

    Professor Susan Morton MNZM BSc(Hons) MBChB PhD FAFPHM FNZCPHM

    Welcome to INSIGHT – the UTS Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Well-being and Health. 

    INSIGHT is a unique pan-University Institute   
    focused on driving positive systemic change in access to, and delivery of, heath and health-related services to address complex and entrenched health challenges. Read more

    MEET THE TEAM

  • INSIGHT is a convening space at UTS for multidisciplinary* research that brings together experts across health, science, engineering and IT, law, business, and the humanities, together with communities and industry to solve wicked and complex health problems. We focus on improving health and wellbeing across the life course, from children and families, to older people, and those living with dementia, chronic disease, and palliative conditions. The health of First Nations peoples is a priority throughout.

    Insight, transforming health care and health research for all our futures.

Contact us

E: insight@uts.edu.au

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.