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Monash Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences is a leading provider of healthcare education in Australia.

We're committed to the translation of our biomedical and public health research to health outcomes in partnership with our affiliated healthcare facilities and Medical Research Institutes.

Why study with us

Why study with us?

Study specialist degrees from day one. Become one of Australia's most employable graduates.

Our research

We take a bench to bedside approach and are focused on achieving better outcomes for patients.

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Enterprise and partnerships

Our culture of collaboration between clinicians, researchers, government and industry enables us to work directly with you to develop creative solutions to your problems and challenges.

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Alumni

We have a growing network of over 68,000 alumni spanning more than 90 countries around the world.

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Schools and departments

Our faculty comprises 10 schools and more than 20 departments.

Centres and Institutes

Spread across several Monash University campuses, the Faculty comprises 29 teaching and clinical centres, and six institutes.

The world is changing, and we’re changing with it.
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Curing The Future - A Different Lens

Healthcare is a huge industry. There seems to be a constant stream of new treatments and therapies for every health ailment. The older we get, the more drugs we’re prescribed, and it’s meant to empower us to live a rich and active life. But is society’s current approach to healthcare helping us live longer and healthier, or longer and sicker?

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News and research highlights

Monash University news

Landmark study finds that the shape of the brain influences the way it works

The study has examined more than 10,000 different maps of human brain activity and found that the overall shape of a person’s brain exerts a far greater influence on how we think, feel and behave than its intricate neuronal connectivity.

The work opens opportunities to understand the effects of diseases like dementia and stroke by considering models of brain shape, which are far easier to deal with than models of the brain’s full array of connections.

Scientists discover an enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy

Monash University news

Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published today, in the top journal Nature, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. This finding paves the way to create devices that make energy from thin air.

Victorian Heart Hospital opens

Cardiovascular care, world-class research, and a significant healthcare network and workforce have combined in one place with the official opening of the Victorian Heart Hospital (VHH), home to the Monash Victorian Heart Institute (VHI).

Operated by Victoria’s Monash Health, the VHH hosts the VHI on a dedicated floor of the building. The Institute brings together world-leading cardiovascular experts, researchers, students and entrepreneurs who are focused on taking discoveries, techniques and therapies out of the lab and into practice.

Monash University Heads $15M Mitochondrial Donation Clinical Trial

Around 50 Australian children are born every year with devastating mitochondrial disease (mito), with an expected lifespan of only five years. Today, the Medical Research Future Fund announced $15 million in funding to an Australian first – and only the second in the world – clinical trial of mitochondrial donation.
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Monash University to host 2024 World Health Summit

Monash University’s contributions in the global public health arena have been recognised with the successful bid to host the 2024 World Health Summit - Regional Meeting.
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