Population Health Division (PHD)
What We Do
Population Health Division helps all Australians to stay healthy and live longer by helping them avoid illness or injury.
The Division manages a number of programs and initiatives as well as supports a number of advisory bodies on preventive health or sports through funding and/or secretariat services.
Information about the work of the Division is available through the following links:
Health In Social Policy Branch
- National Preventative Health Strategy
- National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health
- Australian Health Survey
- Australian National Preventive Health Agency
- Child and Youth Health
- Men's Health
- Women's Health
- Reproductive Health
- Links to advisory bodies supported by the Health In Social Policy Branch:
Cancer and Palliative Care Branch
- Palliative Care
- Screening, including:
- BreastScreen Australia
- National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
- National Cervical Screening Program
Healthy Living Branch
- Maternal and Infant Health
- Nutrition
- Physical Activity
- Healthy Spaces and Places
- Get Set 4 Life – habits for healthy kids
- Chronic Disease
- Links to other programs, initiatives and advisory bodies supported by the Healthy Living Branch:
- Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula (APMAIF)
- Learning from Successful Community Initiatives
- Walk Safely to School Day and Walk to Work Day
- Measure Up Campaign
- Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
- National Healthy School Canteens
- National Injury Surveillance Unit
Drug Strategy Branch
Tobacco Control Taskforce
