Research
Progressing an evidence-based rural health research agenda.
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 value a collaborative approach, and our research seeks to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
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Strategic research areas chevron_right
Our research activity is guided by the RHMT program’s five strategic research areas:
- Rural health workforce development (including increasing rural-origin and Indigenous students studying health professions courses and workforce recruitment and retention strategies).
- Rural training strategies.
- Innovative rural service delivery models to enable the provision of health services to meet community needs.
- 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.
- Improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Our objectives chevron_right
- Understand the unique characteristics of communities across our footprint to critically reflect on key assumptions and concepts informing strategies and policies to improve rural health.
- Facilitate processes of research co-design involving our diverse stakeholders in conducting research that addresses complex real-world rural health issues.
- Generate high-quality scholarship that has a regional focus and national and international significance.