Institute for Health Transformation

Prevention and population health
Health systems and services
Health economics and financing
Data analytics and digital health

Addressing health system challenges and driving health reform

Health systems globally are undergoing change. The major challenges are driven by complex interactions between social and demographic shifts, the rise of complex and chronic care, rapid growth in technological breakthroughs, and the increasing influence of people as drivers of their own health and care.

Some of the most compelling and complex health systems challenges include:

Growing inequalities in health, globally and locally
Ageing populations with multiple comorbidities
Increasing burden of preventable risk factors
Transitioning to value based health and care and
Creating economically sustainable health systems

Transform health across the continuum, from prevention to care

The Institute is a strategic initiative of Deakin University integrating population health, health systems and services research across the broad spectrum from wellness to complex chronic disease and end of life care.

Our multidisciplinary team works to transform health from prevention to care, to:

Activate healthy populations and communities
Innovate health service delivery and design
Optimise transitions between care and community
Drive equity and value in health and care

These integrated multidisciplinary research pillars are supported by four key enablers:

Data and digital health
Health economics
Systems approaches
Knowledge translation

The Institute will provide excellent research that aims to accelerate the ideas we need to transform health and care in Australia and around the world.

Professor Anna Peeters

Inaugural Director, Institute for Health and Transformation