About the Faculty
We have an outstanding reputation for the quality of our programs and graduates. This reputation builds on the leadership established by our predecessor, the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences. There is a strong demand for our vocationally relevant courses. Our aim is to provide high quality education in health and social work to improve health, wellbeing and the efficient delivery of quality health and human services.
Professor Hal SwerissenDean, Faculty of Health Sciences
Our faculty has five schools:
Within these schools, we have a number of departments:
- Department of Community Health
- Department of Dentistry and Oral Health
- Department of Human Biosciences
- Department of Human Communication Sciences
- Department of Occupational Therapy
- Department of Physiotherapy
- Department of Public Health
- Department of Social Work and Social Policy
- Department of Podiatry
- Department of Clinical Vision Sciences
- National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics
- Department of Paramedicine
- Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
- Department of Nursing
- Department of Midwifery
- Department of Health Information Management
- Department of Counselling and Psychological Health
- Department of Health and Environment
- Department of Allied Health
- Department of Rural Nursing and Midwifery
- Department of Rural Human Biosciences
- National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language
