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23 June 2025 - We develop policies and run programs to support the nursing and midwifery workforce. The Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Division supports this work across the department.

20 January 2026 - A list of organisations, websites and services related to children's health.

10 July 2025 - We work to minimise the impact of COVID-19 through free COVID-19 vaccines and subsidised treatments, national guidelines and case definitions for public health units, funding research to better understand and tackle this disease, and tracking and reporting on statistics.

6 June 2023 - A list of contacts related to sexual health.

4 June 2024 - The Global Health initiative will provide $30 million over 10 years from 2024–25 to fund projects that improve our understanding of global health threats and how best to tackle them.

30 July 2025 - Historically, science has not considered the full spectrum of sex, gender and sexual orientation. This has led to health and medical research that does not fully reflect the needs of all Australians. We are collaborating with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to change this.

22 June 2026 - The Reducing Health Inequities Mission is investing $150 million for research to address inequities in health outcomes. This funding will improve access to quality health services by priority populations.

5 August 2025 - This collection contains open letters to stakeholders, updates to proposed consultation forums and progress of the 4 phases for the Independent Review of Complexity in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS).

10 September 2024 - The Co-design Working Group (CWG) formed in November 2023 to support the co-design of an Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process for Health Technology Assessment (HTA). The group worked to improve how we include the views of consumers and patients earlier in the medicines listing process.

6 August 2025 - The Aged Care Quality Standards set the standard for the safety and quality of aged care accessed by older people in Australia. Find out how we've strengthened the Quality Standards to make them more measurable and detailed.