About the School
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The School of Public Health and Community Medicine is one of the leading Schools of Public Health in Australia. It is also one of the most recently established – having been created from three separate Schools at The University of New South Wales in late 2001 – early 2002. The School is actively involved in promoting excellence in both teaching and research, and sees a dynamic link between these two spheres of activity. The School of Public Health and Community Medicine is focused locally, nationally and regionally on addressing key problems.
The School of Public Health and Community Medicine has recently adopted “Reinventing health - policy, practice and systems” as its organising framework for research activity.
Research is promoted in three key spheres:
- Managing and preventing major public health problems (chronic diseases, injury and violence, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, alcohol, drugs and tobacco, cancer);
- Health services and systems;
- Health, equity, social justice and diversity.
The School of Public Health and Community Medicine builds active links with a range of
Research Centres. It is committed to exploring, researching, evaluating, and responding to the growing agenda around knowledge management, research transfer, and research to policy and practice activities.