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Population Health Division leads the development and implementation of national population health initiatives to combat preventable illness, disease and injury, in order to increase healthy life expectancy and improve people’s capacity to participate in society. The Division promotes health throughout life and across the continuum of care, and strengthens health workforce capabilities and information systems to deliver effective programs to achieve these goals.

In this section:

What do we do?

Population Health Division helps all Australians to stay healthy and live longer by helping them avoid illness or injury. We help those Australians who are chronically ill to manage their disease across the continuum of care, including into palliative care.

How do we help people to stay healthy?

We develop, coordinate and fund (directly or via the states and territories):

national immunisation programs;
national cancer screening programs;
national health promotion programs;
national strategies targeting infectious diseases;
national strategies targeting drugs, tobacco and the abuse of alcohol;
programs assisting with the management of chronic disease and palliative care;
the training of population health administrators; and
the surveillance of chronic disease and its risk factors.

We also develop policy for population health, including food regulatory policy.

Who do we work with?

Population Health Division works with all Australians, non-government organisations, other arms of government, the states and territories, and with doctors, health and allied health professionals and researchers and academics.