School of Public Health

Girra Maa is our Indigenous Health Discipline. The discipline aims to improve the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through quality education, research and engagement at individual, family, community and policy levels.

One driving force behind our wider research program is a desire to work inclusively with those from marginalised populations and communities and those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities) to help improve their health and health care.

Our research portfolio includes a strong focus upon investigating core issues relating to preventive health, ageing and chronic illness.

Many of the School's researchers are examining a wide range of women's and children's health issues providing insights around pregnancy and childbirth, early childhood health, menstruation and menopause, osteoporosis amongst other areas.

Many researchers in the School, especially in the Discipline of Health Services Management, are researching and evaluating the organisation of care, delivery of services, the practice of management in the health industry and a number of related health system and service issues.