About CHS
Welcome to the Centre for Health and Society. Established in 1997, the Centre for Health and Society (CHS) is located in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne.
The key focus of the Centre for Health and Society (CHS) is the inter-disciplinary study of health, illness and health care in local, national and international settings, which brings perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to the study of medical science, clinical and public health practice and health policy. The Centre is unique in its integration of a variety of humanities and social sciences perspectives on health, disease and health care delivery, and uses disciplinary approaches from the history of health and medicine, medical anthropology, health ethics, sociology of health and illness, and health policy analysis.
The CHS houses a number of different programs that can be grouped as follows:
Social Health Teaching and Research Programs
Aboriginal Health Programs which include:
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control
Medical History Programs which include:
Johnstone-Need Medical History Unit
Medical History Museum
Health and History
Australian Witness to Science and Medicine
Gateways to the History of Medicine