About us

The School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences brings together academics from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds to provide excellent educational experiences for students, and to address important challenges facing the health of individuals, communities and populations. Our discipline groups of Indigenous health, medical science, exercise and rehabilitation sciences, nutrition and dietetics and psychology work together to produce health professionals who can work effectively in interdisciplinary health care teams and scientists who are ready to address key questions in health and disease.

Indigenous Health

Centres Indigenous ways of knowing to improve health outcomes, working with communities to address inequities, strengthen cultural safety, and drive self-determined approaches to care, wellbeing, and health system reform.

Study Indigenous Health

Medical Science

Investigates the biological and physiological foundations of human health and disease, developing evidence that advances diagnostics, therapeutics, and biomedical innovation to improve clinical practice and public health.

Study Medical Science

Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Examines human movement, performance, and recovery, applying scientific principles to prevent injury, enhance physical function, and design rehabilitation strategies that optimise lifelong health and wellbeing.

Study Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Nutrition and Dietetics

Explores the relationship between food, health, and disease, applying nutritional science to improve individual and population wellbeing through evidence-based dietary strategies, clinical care, and public health nutrition.

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Psychology

Studies human behaviour, cognition, and emotion across diverse contexts, using scientific methods to understand mental processes, address psychological challenges, and support wellbeing through research and applied practice.

Study Psychology

In addition to our Wollongong campus, we offer teaching across the Shoalhaven, the Southern Highlands, and numerous healthcare facilities throughout New South Wales. This wide network helps us connect with communities, understand their healthcare needs, and provide students with rich learning experiences in real-world settings.

Community engagement opportunities 

The School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences is committed to social accountability, ensuring our communities play a central role in everything we do. Our staff and students champion social justice by collaborating with community partners across learning, teaching and research, fostering mutual benefit, inclusion and meaningful community development.

Engagement is supported through four key streams: community-engaged learning, health advocacy, community-engaged research and direct philanthropy. Together, these initiatives aim to build healthier communities and advance health equity by working alongside the people we serve.

• Body Donation Program
• Consumer and Community Research Network
• Simulated Patient Program

Sessional casual staff opportunities

The School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences offers a wide range of subjects designed to promote healthy lifestyles and improve the wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations. Our School spans four disciplines—Medical Science, Indigenous Health, Nutrition & Dietetics, and Exercise, Sport Science & Rehabilitation.

We are seeking passionate, highly motivated and suitably qualified individuals to support the delivery of teaching to the next generation of allied health and medical science professionals.

Expressions of interest can be submitted to the School Office via mihs-admin@uow.edu.au.