Curtin University of Technology - School of Public Health

The public health endeavours at Curtin are within the Division of Health Sciences and are covered by the work of the School of Public Health, the National Drug Research Institute, the Centre for Health Promotion Research, the Centre for International Health, the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control and the Centre for Research into Aged Care Services.
The School of Public Health provides education for public health professionals and provides additional skills to health professionals in clinical practice. The discipline of public health seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of the whole community. It concentrates on activities that promote wellbeing, such as nutrition, physical activity and a healthy environment. In more recent years the population-based techniques developed for disease control in the community have also been applied to managing an increasingly complex health system. The Curtin School of Public Health provides education and undertakes research in all areas of public health. Thus we also teach management and evaluation of health facilities and techniques for improving health communications, as well as the more traditional areas of public health.

Head: Professor Susan Fyfe
Curtin University of Technology - School of Public Health