School of Public Health
Acting Head of School
Professor Simon Chapman
Location
Edward Ford Building, University of Sydney
The School of Public Health comprises a network of individuals, research groups and centres that offer a wide range of educational and research opportunities. In addition to core academic staff based at the main University campus and Western Clinical School at Westmead Hospital, the School also includes several associated research centres.
Members of the school
- Australian Centre for Agricultural Health & Safety, Moree
- Australian Centre for Effective Healthcare (Main campus)
- Australian Centre for Health Promotion (Main campus)
- Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health
- Family Medicine Research Centre (Westmead)
- NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre (Mallett St campus)
- Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health
- NSW Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research (Main campus)
The core academic staff of the School are supported by colleagues working in the health system who hold associate, clinical, conjoint or adjunct academic titles within the School. Taken together, such a broadly based, and research active academic faculty provides a substantial resource for our students.
Facilities
The University Library has a specialist public health branch [the Burkitt-Ford library] in the public health building. This library holds an extensive collection of public health books and journals. The School is well equipped with over 20 networked PC computers with a wide range of word processing, spreadsheet and statistical software. Both these facilities are available to students enrolled in the School and are open four evenings a week during teaching weeks for the benefit of part-time students.
Areas of research
Public Health and Health Services Research has been recognised as an institutional strength of the University of Sydney. Members of the School are involved in research in the following major theme areas:
- Clinical trials
- Epidemiology and biostatistics
- Health economics
- Health services research
- Indigenous health
- International health
- Public health policy and practice
- Rural and agricultural health
- Screening & Test Evaluation Program (STEP)
Academic diciplines
- Public Health & Community Medicine
Research units and associated units
- Australian Centre for Health Promotion
- Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research
- Effective Healthcare Australia
- Family Medicine Research Centre
- Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin
- NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
Contact details
Room 320
Edward Ford Building (A27)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: + 61 2 9036 9262
Fax: + 61 2 9351 7420
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