Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction

The Health-Science Alliance is recognised nationally and internationally as providing the best possible healthcare informed by cutting-edge research activity translated rapidly into the clinical setting. These are provided by a world-class team of healthcare providers and medical researchers.

In NUW Alliance three of Australia’s leading research-intensive universities harness shared experience, global reach and excellence in innovation and to create new knowledge, grow new jobs, build new businesses, and deliver the leaders of tomorrow for the workforce of the future.

Maridulu Budyari Gumal is an academic health science partnership. We are the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). We have an ambitious purpose: to change the future of healthcare.

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network cares for thousands of children each year in our hospitals and in their homes — with one purpose in mind — to help young people live their healthiest lives.

Part of the NSW-based arm of St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Hospital provides significant training and research activities housing several specialty units that are internationally recognised as centres of excellence.

South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) provides a healthcare service that is patient focused, equitable and responsive to the changing and developing needs of the communities in south western Sydney. SWSLHD covers seven Local Government Areas from Bankstown to Wingecarribee and has a population of approximately 820,000 people.

SESLHD provides health care to over 930,000 residents, from Sydney’s CBD to the outskirts of the southern suburbs. SESLHD has nine hospitals and a range of high-quality, community based health care services.

This new framework will serve to grow partnerships and strengthen ties with consumers and service providers, Dementia Training Australia and Dementia Support Australia in order to progress prevention, assessment, care and translation of knowledge into everyday practice, as well as building the next generation of dementia researchers.

The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) is a joint facility of the University of New South Wales and St Vincents Hospital in Sydney Australia. It combines clinical and research expertise in the recognition and treatment of the anxiety and depressive disorders.

Centre for Eye Health (CFEH) is a referral centre offering advanced ocular imaging, diagnostic and management services. All services are carried out with no out of pocket expense to patients, thanks to the generosity and support of Guide Dogs NSW/ACT.

The Black Dog Institute is dedicated to understanding, preventing and treating mental illness. We are about creating a world where mental illness is treated with the same level of concern, immediacy and seriousness as physical illness; where scientists work to discover the causes of illness and new treatments, and where discoveries are immediately put into practice through health services, technology and community education.