Industry relations and partnerships

Partners can push our research in new, innovative directions. As well as helping us launch research centres, partners often engage with us on high-profile projects or low-profile consultancy work. We collaborate with organisations to research issues that are important to both parties. Our projects have a positive effect equally on the business and on our reputation (through publications). For a commercial fee, businesses can use our expertise for training programs, developing new materials, data analysis or advice.

Research centres

One of the most dynamic forms of a partnership is a research centre. The Faculty of Health has a number of research centres that have been established in collaboration or with funding from a partner.

• The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD)
• The Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Disease (GCEID)
• Western Alliance Academic Health Science Centre
• Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and Non-communicable Diseases (C-POND)
• National Centre for Farmer Health
• Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine

We partner with a number of healthcare organisations in metropolitan, regional and rural settings.

Barwon Health partnership

Deakin University and Barwon Health have partnered for more than two decades, improving health services and powering innovation in the Barwon region and beyond. The partnership helps to build a health workforce of medical, nursing and midwifery, and allied health clinicians.

DU/DHHS/DoJAR Strategic Alliance

Integrating research, teaching and practice, the DU/DHHS/DoJAR Strategic Alliance is a partnership between Deakin University (DU), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Department of Justice and Regulation (DoJAR). The alliance helps to strengthen community actions, ensure quality services and build healthy public policy in the Barwon-South Western region.

We're committed to responding to the health and medical needs of rural and regional communities, particularly in western Victoria. This has resulted in three regional research centres and a formal strategic alliance with the Department of Health and Human Services.

One of our top priorities at the Faculty of Health is closing the gap in life expectancy and disadvantage between Aboriginal and Torres Strait populations and the rest of Australia. Through an internal partnership with Deakin's Institute of Koorie Education, we're helping to train Indigenous health workers across Australia.

School of Medicine Indigenous Entry Stream

Up to 5% of domestic places in Deakin's Doctor of Medicine course are held for Indigenous Australian applicants applying through the Indigenous Entry Stream. We also offer this entry stream for Indigenous Australian applicants applying for our Bachelor of Medical Imaging and Bachelor of Vision Science/Master of Optometry.

In line with Deakin's goal to have an international impact, the faculty's international partnerships include collaborations with leading universities and organisations around the world. Our collaborations in India and Denmark leverage the faculty's research strengths in world-class health systems research, eHealth, exercise and sport science, mental health, public health and health innovation.

The Faculty of Health has been fortunate enough to receive many philanthropic donations. These have a strategic impact on our work and have led to the establishment of research centres, research projects, scholarships and awards. Some donations we've received include:

• $1M donation from a private funder, in conjunction with the AFL, to work on an AusKick program for kids with autism.
• $1M from the Wilson Foundation, to support Deakin University's Food and Mood Centre and it's cutting-edge research linking the human gut microbiome to mental and brain health.