Vision
The School of Population Health vision is to inculcate a population health approach in all areas of health care and in the community where opportunities for disease and injury prevention exist.
On February 1st 2001, the University of Melbourne established Australia's first School of Population Health within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Initially, the School of Population Health will comprise a newly established Department of Public Health which includes seven teaching and research centres and units.
The new school is distinctive in its joining social sciences and medical humanities with epidemiology, biostatistics and biomedical sciences to focus on a population health approach to clinical medicine and molecular biology, mental health, indigenous health and health care services, as well as traditional public health areas of communicable and chronic diseases.
We see this approach as providing a translational bridge between new technology developments in genomics and proteomics through health services and social structures to the population whose health we aim to protect and promote.