We undertake place-based research with rural communities across our footprint. We focus on the three priority areas that underpin the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) program:

• Rural health education
• Rural health workforce
• Rural health outcomes.

We are committed to fostering authentic research collaborations with a wide range of stakeholders, including healthcare providers, communities and local organisations, to co-create solutions that are responsive to the unique needs of rural communities.

You can access information on all our Three Rivers DRH researchers, collaborations, activities and publications via the open access Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO) website.

Strategic research areas

Our research activity is guided by the RHMT program’s five strategic research areas:

1. Rural health workforce development (including increasing rural-origin and Indigenous students studying health professions courses and workforce recruitment and retention strategies).
2. Rural training strategies.
3. Innovative rural service delivery models to enable the provision of health services to meet community needs.
4. Health issues directly impacting on rural people, with a focus on benefiting communities within the university’s catchment area through the delivery of better health services.
5. Improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.