Our Key Priorities

SQRH is a University Department of Rural Health, a Commonwealth-funded collaboration between The University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Darling Downs Health and South West Hospital and Health Service. SQRH has been funded to work across 7 key priority areas.

• Delivering effective rural training experiences for allied health, nursing and midwifery students (prior to gaining professional registration).
• Ensuring rural training experiences are of a high quality.
• Developing processes to improve rural student recruitment.
• Engaging with the local community to support the delivery of training to students.
• Maintaining and progressing an evidence base and the rural health research agenda.
• Supporting improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
• Providing regional leadership in developing innovative training solutions to address rural workforce recruitment retention.