The School of Medicine and Psychology
Our life experiences are defined by the capabilities and potential of our mind and body. Appreciating their interdependence and inter-relationship is essential to understanding and improving human health.
At the School of Medicine and Psychology, we are dissolving boundaries and enabling new health solutions through interdisciplinary research, education and practice.
Our integrated perspectives, knowledge and techniques, are preparing doctors, psychologists and health care leaders of the future who will work in partnership with their patients and colleagues to provide optimal care for individuals while strengthening the health system and society they work in.
Our partnerships with discovery and population researchers, government, diverse organisations and communities are enabling courageous research that challenges assumptions, transcends boundaries, informs healthcare and transforms human lives.
The School of Medicine and Psychology formed in 2023. While the website is under development, we invite you to read more about our medicine and psychology programs.
Field sites & facilities
Explore some of the numerous of research sites and facilities established by our research schools in Australia and across the world. Researchers and students at ANU enjoy access to state-of-the-art equipment to help facilitate ground-breaking research.
Research projects
Browse research topics of the College of Science and the College of Health & Medicine with links to relevant researchers.
See our list of potential student projects to apply for PhB, Honours, PhD and other graduate degrees.
Stories
Analysis and opinion
Scientists around the world are already fighting the next pandemic
The “superbug problem” will not be solved by more prudent antibiotic use alone.
News
Awards fit for a queen go to ANU Health and Medicine experts
Three professors from the ANU Medical School, and a JCSMR graduate, have all been recognised in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Student profile
“We demand change”: Indigenous leader Izayah Davis on his path to becoming a doctor
Health science student Izayah Davis was recently interviewed by Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt. Here is an edited version of Izayah’s replies.
Analysis and opinion
Seeing is believing: how media mythbusting can actually make false beliefs stronger
Misinformation about coronavirus can have serious consequences.
News
Calls to add ‘climate change’ to death certificates
Heat-related deaths have been “substantially underreported” on Australia’s national records.
Student profile
“Look for opportunity”: advice on doing your PhD during a pandemic
“Just continue to do something, anything, as long as you are moving forward, no matter how slow that movement is.”
News
Over half of world’s healthcare workers attend work when sick
It is common for healthcare workers across the globe to attend work when they are sick with flu like symptoms, according to a new international study.
News
New study to help stop the ‘racism pandemic’
ANU researchers are calling on people around the world to take part in the biggest ever study into helping understand and reduce prejudice.
Analysis and opinion
Poor and rich Indonesians do not get equal access to COVID-19 tests: this is why it's a problem
Amid the urgent need for mass testing to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia, poor people in the fourth-most-populous country have a difficult time to get tested for COVID-19. It’s much easier for rich Indonesians to access COVID-19 testings.
Analysis and opinion
If this is an existential crisis, then why am I so hopeful?
We’ve entered a new reality. It’s not great, but it has something going for it: we don’t know how this one ends. Yet.