Fire Across the Land - Historical Trauma & Colonization

Western Sydney is the epicentre of Australia's healthcare opportunities and challenges. Growing, urban, diverse and aspirational, Western Sydney is transforming, and needs a healthcare system that transforms with it. To deliver this healthcare system we need a new model of health research – a model that integrates world-class research into policy and practice. A model that focuses on the community and supports seamless healthcare from primary and population health through to acute hospital treatment. A model that considers carers and families, the local economy and the environment. Western Sydney University, embedded in the most diverse and interesting health community in Australia, is creating this new model: THRI.

THRI is Western Sydney University's Translational Health Research Institute. Western Sydney University produces world class research in public health and health services, psychology, nursing, human geography, paediatrics and reproductive medicine, microbiology, pharmacology, and many other important areas of healthcare. Our researchers cover diseases – both acute and chronic — health service delivery and new models of care. THRI connects Western Sydney University's research to the nation's fastest growing urban population, Western Sydney. Research is most powerful when it is done in partnership and THRI will partner with health practitioners, hospitals, local health districts, primary health networks and, of course, patients.