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The School of Public Health will improve the health of all people through building the public health workforce of tomorrow and leading solution-focused research today.
Study with us at the School of Public Health and you’ll be part of a leading research, teaching and service organisation making a significant, positive impact on your community.
Focusing on primary disease prevention, optimal, evidence-based disease management, and equity in health care, our work has a genuine influence on health policy and practice—and will prepare you to do the same.
Head of School
Professor Tracy Merlin is Head of the School of Public Health and Deputy Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. She is a clinical epidemiologist and methodologist in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and evidence-based health policy.
Our researchers
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Latest news
Funding awarded to explore immune response in MS
MS Australia has recognised the work of University of Adelaide’s Dr Iain Comerford with a $25,000 Incubator Grant.
Magnetic approach to chemo-induced neuropathy
More than 80 per cent of bowel cancer survivors are living with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), a form of chronic nerve damage which can cause symptoms that range from mild pins and needles to losing all feeling and control in your hands and feet.
Diabetes and heart disease researchers funded
University of Adelaide’s Dr Emma Solly and Dr Sivabaskari Pasupathy will share in the latest round of funding from The Hospital Research Foundation Group’s Advancing Care and Treatment of Chronic Conditions in Priority Populations competitive grant round.
