Master of Health Sciences (Research)

UNSW offers expertise across a broad range of health research areas including Cancer, Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease, Infectious Disease, Neuroscience, Mental Health & Addiction, Precision Medicine & Genomics, Public Health & Future Health Systems, and Ageing & Dementia.

UNSW takes a multidisciplinary and translational approach to health research, involving collaboration between researchers, clinicians, medical institutions and lawmakers. This includes integrating clinical studies with computational models, genomics, machine learning, AI-driven computer sequencing, and wearable technologies to accelerate the translation of research into publicly available healthcare.

Yes, UNSW actively encourages R&D partnerships and collaboration. The university has hosted events such as the Futures Expo Series to bring together businesses, investors, and government to explore collaboration opportunities with its leading innovation community.

UNSW researchers have developed wearable technologies to prevent falls in older adults, led the National Hypertension Taskforce established by the Minister of Health & Aged Care, made medical history with Australia's first successful childbirth from a transplanted uterus, and partnered in the nation's largest childhood cancer initiative, Zero Childhood Cancer, which guarantees personalised care to every child with high-risk cancer.

UNSW has several Scientia Professors and leading researchers including Anushka Patel (cardiovascular health and chronic disease prevention), Henry Brodaty (healthy brain ageing and dementia), Tony Kelleher (immunovirology and HIV-AIDS), Maria Kavallaris (cancer nanomedicine), Kaarin Anstey (cognitive ageing and dementia), Ewa Goldys (biophotonics and nanoscale imaging), and Richard Bryant (post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety).