Southern Queensland Rural Health (SQRH)

Southern Queensland Rural Health (SQRH) is a University Department of Rural Health, a Commonwealth-funded collaboration between The University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland, Darling Downs Health and South West Hospital and Health Service. SQRH has been established to increase rural health training opportunities for nursing, midwifery and allied health students and health professionals in regional, rural and remote communities. SQRH has been funded to work across 7 key priority areas which include:

•  Delivering effective rural training experiences for allied health, nursing and midwifery students (prior to gaining professional registration).
• Ensuring rural training experiences are of a high quality.
• Developing processes to improve rural student recruitment.
• Engaging with the local community to support the delivery of training to students.
• Maintaining and progressing an evidence base and the rural health research agenda.
• Supporting improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
• Providing regional leadership in developing innovative training solutions to address rural workforce recruitment retention.