About
By fostering resilience, growing interprofessional skills and knowledge, and mobilising collective action, our College is committed to delivering better, healthier living for our communities.
We are doctors, nurses and midwives. Pharmacists, occupational therapists, biomedical scientists, physiotherapists. Epidemiologists, nutritionists, radiographers. And so much more. We are leaders and listeners.
Our staff have a passion and conviction to learn, succeed and assert an influence over global healthcare challenges. As a student, you’ll graduate life-ready with a clear understanding of your value and skills. Taught in state-of-the-art learning environments, you will be prepared for the health and medical workforce of today — and tomorrow.
The quality of education and research we undertake is grounded in a harmonised agenda with our clinical, education, community and research partners. We’re deeply connected to the challenges and opportunities in our region and beyond. Our students, researchers, educators and graduates are helping to improve rural and remote health and invest in our local NSW communities.
We speak up for equity, diversity and inclusion and create pathways that enable capability, build confidence and foster belonging in education and health care provision. Our Indigenous Health Unit, Thurru, has helped train more than 145 Indigenous doctors.
A message from our college Pro Vice-Chancellor
Professor Lisa Wood
Welcome to the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing – an innovative, research-intensive centre of education excellence.
In collaboration with our external partners and stakeholders, including long-standing partnerships with our regions’ health districts, the College prepares exemplary, career ready healthcare professionals, and produces world-leading, multidisciplinary and collaborative research that contributes to solving local, regional and global health problems.
Through our clinical, population and laboratory research we inform an evidence base that enables discovery of new and better ways to prevent and treat disease and highlights the complex behavioural, social, and economic factors that affect health and wellbeing.
Our students are well prepared for the healthcare workforce of the future. With academic and clinical guidance our students experience real life situations and learn patient-focused, relevant and practical approaches, as they build an in-depth understanding of the consumer experience, the health care system and the contexts in which health care and health research is delivered.
True to our values of excellence and equity, we are committed to training health professionals and researchers from a range of backgrounds. This approach makes the most of the extensive skills, perspectives and networks that a diverse health workforce brings; drives innovative solutions to health care challenges; and encourages patients from diverse backgrounds to seek health care assistance. With a particular focus on understanding the needs, and delivering on the aspirations of, regional, rural, remote and Indigenous Australians, the College challenges health inequities through an empowered and capable workforce.
On behalf of the wider College, I welcome you and encourage you to spend some time getting to know us. We welcome all opportunities to partner and engage with you.
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.