About us

Three Rivers Department of Rural Health (DRH) works with educators, healthcare providers and local communities across our footprint to support health students and rural health professionals.

We support students in rural learning experiences, develop multidisciplinary resources, provide training for health professionals, and undertake rural health research in collaboration with regional communities.

We support research into rural health training and workforce development, as well as rural health service delivery models that support the health and wellbeing of First Nations peoples and rural communities.

Our goal is to improve the recruitment and retention of nursing, midwifery, allied health and dentistry professionals in rural and remote Australia.

Our priorities

Three Rivers DRH is a key initiative of the Australian Government under the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program. The objective of this program is to improve the recruitment and retention of medical, dental, nursing and allied health professionals in rural and remote Australia.

We work with our partners and stakeholders to achieve this through the following priority areas:

Delivering effective rural training experiences for nursing, midwifery, allied health and dental students (prior to gaining professional registration).
Ensuring rural training experiences are of high quality.
Developing processes to improve rural student recruitment.
Engaging with the local community to support the delivery of training to students.
Maintaining and progressing an evidence-based rural health research agenda.
Supporting improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
Providing regional leadership in developing innovative training solutions to address rural workforce recruitment and retention.