Building a Better World through Better Health
Welcome to the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin.
The Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences is recognised internationally for its contribution to the health field in teaching, training, research and service. This has enabled us to assist governments, communities and organisations in advancing health and social policies and programs. Our strategic intent is to achieve the Deakin mission and core commitments through improving health and well being, and by strengthening the health and human services sectors in Australia and internationally.
The Faculty comprises the Schools of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Health and Social Development, Medicine, Nursing, and Psychology. In April 2006 the Prime Minister announced that Deakin would host Victoria’s third medical school with a special focus on regional and rural health needs. This new school is now fully operational having taken its first intake of 120 graduate-entry students at the beginning of 2008. We also host the Metabolic Research Unit in Geelong and the University Department of Rural Health in Warrnambool. The Faculty has been designated an official World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention and Related Research and Training.
We are already acknowledged by the health and human services sector to be strong achievers and contributors in a range of subject areas including: nutrition, dietetics, exercise science, sports coaching, obesity prevention, public health, health promotion, social exclusion and disability, general nursing, ageing nursing, peri-operative nursing, critical care nursing, health psychology, clinical psychology, and forensic psychology.
Over the next three years we will expand and enhance our sound platforms in community nutrition, food science, bio-health sciences, occupational science and therapy, social work, midwifery, organisational psychology, rural and regional health, behavioural and social epidemiology, chronic disease prevention, community wellness and applied management and leadership. In addition to graduate-entry medicine, we also plan to enter new areas of pharmacy, nurse practitioner practice, graduate-entry occupational therapy, graduate-entry social work, and rehabilitation science.
The Faculty has a number of key research strengths which are organised around six 'research clusters': Biomolecular Nutrition and Molecular Medicine, Physical Activity and Nutrition, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Equity and Social Justice, Public Health Research, Policy, and Evaluation, and Quality and Risk Management in Clinical and Aged Care.
Schools and individual staff of the Faculty work collaboratively with a wide number of external organisations. These include federal and state governments, schools, hospitals, health centres, non government organisations such as the Heart Foundation, community groups, international bodies such as World Health Organisation, commercial companies, and other universities at home and overseas. We also have a number of highly productive partnerships across the sector, which commonly include joint appointments at professorial level.
All these activities reflect a broad range of interests and expertise. They demonstrate the Faculty's strong and vibrant commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of all people in Australia and our surrounding region. We warmly welcome you to join us in advancing this important work.
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Professor John Catford
Dean, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences |
