Vision and Objectives

The national objective of the WACPH is to strengthen capacity within WA to meet the strategic needs of public health education, training, research and policy development.

This overall aim includes the following six major objectives of the WACPH (click on each objective for further detail):

1. building on existing public health education and research infrastructure and providing leverage for more extensive public health work
2. strengthening the basis for high-level and consistent quality education and research programs
3. fostering innovation to ensure emerging population health education, research and workforce development needs are addressed
4. supporting population health workforce development and education initiatives which focus on the needs of Indigenous Australians
5. fostering co-operation and collaboration across the population health education and research sectors, including linkages to government and the public health workforce
6. fostering multi-disciplinary approaches to population health education and research.