Explore our range of programs and services supporting local communities. With a focus on providing healthcare and improving health outcomes, we are committed to supporting initiatives globally and locally.
We understand the value of building strong partnerships with the communities that surround us. We are dedicated to sharing our expertise and providing service through our programs.
Since 2011, ±¬ÁÏÍõ Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery staff, students, alumni and friends have joined together each year to assemble health kits to address basic health needs. We have assembled care packages with the aim to:
°¿³Ü°ùÌýCommunity and Primary Health Care Network (CPHCN) is building strong partnerships between the ±¬ÁÏÍõ, primary health care organisations and people in the community.
CPHCN's aim is to promote and embed a primary health care approach centred on meeting people’s health needs throughout their whole life.
FitAbility provides physical activity and exercise programs for people with spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury and other disabilities. The purpose-built clinic contains specialised equipment and is extremely accessible for clients with disabilities.Â
Each exercise program is designed specifically to suit each individual with most programs consisting of a range of progressive resistance training, aerobic exercise and functional activities. For more information about FitAbility, please contact FitAbility coordinator on fhs.fitability@sydney.edu.au or 9351 9886.
Our Bachelor of Oral Health students provide dental assistance to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness at the  event each year. Students dispense vital oral hygiene information and patients are assessed by Sydney Dental School Alumni, who attend with a team in their mobile dental clinic.
Through a partnership arrangement which embeds community-based service delivery into teaching and research, the Sydney School of Health Sciences hosts the Sydney .
The program provides a vital exercise rehabilitation service for the community and an avenue for transformative research in this area.
The Poche Centre is focused on delivering world class research by working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, health care institutions and providers. The Poche Centre values research partnerships and actively seek to achieve health equality and solutions to complex health and wellbeing challenges in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander landscape.Â
 Learn more at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health.
 is an oral health promotion and caries prevention program that our Bachelor of Oral Health students volunteer in. They provide free dental screening and fluoride varnish application to primary school students. The program gives students an opportunity to engage with the community, provide preventive care and increasing oral health awareness.
The ±¬ÁÏÍõ Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery has a long-standing relationship with Tonga. Thanks to a generous donation from , eight nurses from Tonga will undertake further education in the Advanced Learning Masters program.
19 students have been selected under the  to undertake part of their study in community health in Tonga.
Learn more about our long history with the Kingdom of Tonga, including the ongoing Advanced Nursing Diploma program that addresses non-communicable diseases at a community level in Tonga.
Our sexual health medicine academics provide clinical services and outstanding opportunities to specialist trainees, helping them to gain experience in the prevention and treatment of STIs and HIV at government-funded sexual health clinics in Sydney.
Visit our clinic at the and find out more information about the services offered.
The ±¬ÁÏÍõ Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery is involved with the  program that seeks to address the under-representation of students from low socio-economic backgrounds, rural communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
°Õ³ó±ðÌý strategy outlines our commitment to creating higher education and leadership opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We are involved in the summer and winter programs that give high school students the opportunity to visit the University to learn more about their career and study options in medicine and health.
