Our Decadal Commitment to the Health of Our Region

WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY WESTERN HEALTH OUR DECADAL COMMITMENT TO THE HEALTH OF OUR REGION westernsydney.edu.au 1 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY WE ARE WESTERN SYDNEY 2 October 2018 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT Western Sydney is Australia’s These priorities are unequivocally led by With our industry and government partners we the needs of our region. They are guided by run ‘Launch Pad’, Western Sydney’s first and third-largest economy and fastest the planning and policy frameworks of our only network of startup incubators, where the growing region. What happens industry and partners. And are driven by our region’s entrepreneurial spirit is cultivated to here in the next two decades will unrivalled record in teaching and research shape and drive new innovations in health. excellence across Western Sydney and have a transformational impact internationally. We are bringing over $1.2 billion in commercial on the nation. Health is the and industry-partnered investment in the overarching and central priority. We will advance these priorities in every most advanced health and educational aspect of Western Sydney University’s infrastructure to Western Sydney in the next It dictates our success in all operations and development over the next ten years alone, with more to follow in the aspects of life. two decades and beyond. Western Sydney subsequent decade. University is embedded in every major Western Sydney’s resilience in the face of health and education precinct in our region: The sheer scale of the challenge, the unrivalled complex and unprecedented challenges in Bankstown, Blacktown-Mt Druitt, Camden, depth of our commitment to this region, and health will be tested, not just in terms of Campbelltown, Liverpool, Penrith and the extraordinary possibilities that world-class system capacity, but our ability to manage Westmead. teaching and research brings, demand we do new and existing challenges at the community even more. That’s what this strategy sets out. level. We simply cannot afford to fail. Across our medical, nursing, psychology, That’s what we will do. health sciences, allied health and health Western Health sets-out Western Sydney management fields we have over 12,500 University’s commitment to the health of its students in clinical or related placements in region in the coming decades. every major hospital throughout the region. Health is the overarching and Through our Translational Health Research PROFESSOR BARNEY GLOVER FTSE Institute, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT central priority. and Development, and NICM Health Research WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY Institute, our research teams are bringing the Through to 2038, we will address and, where best evidence and breakthroughs in health to possible, overcome and shape generational advance outcomes on the ground in Western challenges in the following priority areas: Sydney and across the world. ≥ Chronic Disease ≥ Healthy Ageing We are bringing over $1.2 billion ≥ Midwifery, Maternal and Child Health in commercial and industry- ≥ Mental Health and Wellbeing partnered investment. ≥ Health Innovation westernsydney.edu.au 3 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY 4 October 2018 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY HEALTH RESILIENCE By 2038, increasing life A growing older population will place greater The number of days of temperatures of 35oC demands on acute and preventive allied health or above is projected to almost double by expectancy, coupled with and non-clinical health services, which are 2038, as are levels of population density, declining fertility rates, will create geared towards combating the growth of the lone-occupancy, rates of homelessness and a population with a record high so-called ‘lifestyle diseases’ including obesity, socio-economic inequity. These changes will level of retirees. This will be most diabetes and heart disease. test resilience at all levels. felt in Western Sydney where Sydney’s chronic disease hotspots in the west the proportion of the region’s and south-west will see the biggest population population aged over 65 will grow rises and carry the biggest burden. These areas already contend with some of the longest by an additional 15 per cent. Emergency Department wait times in Australia. RESEARCH EXCELLENCE Advances in health services rely OUR RESEARCH IN NUMBERS on advances in research. Since 2008, we’ve been awarded more than These projects span all modes of research Western Sydney University has invested — from working at a molecular level in exponentially in expanding its research laboratories, right through to an integrated capacity. By 2038, Western Sydney model of working alongside patients in local hospitals. University commits to working with our partners, students, patients, outpatient $172m clinics and our region to advance the rate in health and wellbeing research income. of knowledge and understanding in health research. Our goal is to ensure this research This has allowed our researchers to work bears fruit directly on the ground in intensively on over Western Sydney, and beyond. Because this work won’t be finished tomorrow. 3,200 health and wellbeing projects in the last decade alone. westernsydney.edu.au 5 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN OUR REGION THE NUMBERS Western Sydney’s current 2018 2038 population of 1.9 million is conservatively expected to grow to 3 million by 2038. Consequently, our region will face challenges 678 1,400 in chronic disease, ageing, childhood and mental health MEDICAL STUDENTS at an unprecedented scale and We will increase our medical school capacity and placements to keep pace intensity. with regional growth and heightened complexity, including 60 places at Nepean Hospital. Areas of heightened teaching and research focus will be Expanding the University’s research and teaching capacity in health disciplines is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, new models of community based one of the many ways we plan to respond care, medical homes, super clinics, subacute and aged care. Our research and to these challenges. By 2038, Western partnership emphasis will be on evidenced improvements in tertiary hospital Sydney University commits to working with care, children's care and mental health care. our partners and region in securing and integrating the following students on the ground. This is our commitment to training the next generation of leaders. 4,677 9,400 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTS We will maintain our status as Australia’s highest independently ranked nursing program and increase our clinical and graduate placements, particularly in high-demand sites and in priority fields like ageing, mental health, childhood obesity, diabetes, maternal and child health, as well as community health. 6,573 13,200 HEALTH SCIENCES, PSYCHOLOGY, COMMUNITY AND ALLIED HEALTH STUDENTS We will place research at the heart of everything we do in key scientific, allied, social and community-embedded health and wellbeing fields, with a particular emphasis on mental health, technology, preventative strategies, healthy living and community resilience. 6 October 2018 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY westernsydney.edu.au 7 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY WORKING TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS Nobody can do it alone. Our collaborations with non-government Lastly, but very importantly, we are committed organisations and peaks, include partnerships to achieving optimal health outcomes for Improvements to our health with groups like Tharawal Aboriginal Medical Western Sydney with our education partners, system and the health of our Services, Karitane, and NSW Service for the like, for example, our work with the University region, will only come from Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and of Sydney at Westmead and Nepean, the Trauma Survivors. These links are incredibly University of New South Wales at Liverpool, strong partnerships between important to the health of our region, now and and Charles Sturt University throughout health practitioners, researchers, in the decades ahead. They are deeply valued. regional NSW. industry, policy makers and, of These organisations are the foundation of integrated health care delivery and health We know from experience, that the change course, patients. policy in our region. Working hand-in-hand we collaboratively achieve locally can extend with them is vital to ensuring our research and across Australia and beyond. Our partnerships Western Sydney University is proud to be education programs translate into real impact bring a depth of vision to our work, that working in partnership with many Local Health for our community. enables the ripples we create in Western Districts (LHD) across NSW; including South Sydney to reach around the world. Western Sydney LHD, Western Sydney LHD, Our corporate links are equally valued, and Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, South Eastern we are committed to partnering in health Sydney LHD and Western NSW LHD – and innovations with firms like GE Health, KPMG, Primary Health Networks (PHN) including Macquarie Bank, Madison Marcus, Google WentWest, Nepean Blue Mountains PHN and Australia and PwC, among many others. South Western Sydney PHN. The links we have forged through our ‘Launch Change we can collaboratively Pad’ network with health-related startups are equally critical, particularly in bringing achieve locally can extend across disruptive technologies, new innovations and Australia and internationally. generational change to collaborations. 8 October 2018 WESTERN HEALTH STRATEGY THE LINKS WE HAVE FORGED WITH

Load more