Division of Health Sciences

• Overview
• Schools & Departments
• Further information

Website

http://www.otago.ac.nz/healthsciences

Overview

The Division of Health Sciences will provide New Zealand society and other communities with a highly qualified workforce in the health professions. The Division will promote health and health care through basic and applied research and academic and professional leadership. This will be achieved through research-based undergraduate, postgraduate and professional academic programmes of international standard in the health sciences and related sciences.

Further information about the Health Sciences First Year Course.

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Schools & Departments

The Division of Health Sciences consists of the Faculties of Dentistry and Medicine and the Schools of Pharmacy and Physiotherapy.

The Faculty of Medicine consists of four Schools: the Otago School of Medical Sciences, the Dunedin School of Medicine, the University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the University of Otago, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Bioethics Centre

Medical Laboratory Science

Faculty of Dentistry

• Oral Sciences
• Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
• Oral Rehabilitation

School of Pharmacy

School of Physiotherapy

Otago School of Medical Sciences

• Laboratory Animal Sciences & Research Support Centre
• Anatomy and Structural Biology
• Biochemistry
• Microbiology and Immunology
• Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Physiology

Faculty of Medicine

Dunedin School of Medicine

• General Practice & Rural Health
• Medicine Department
  • Edgar National Centre for Diabetes Research
  • Medicine
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine
  • Ophthalmology
• Pathology
  • Chromosome Structure & Development Group
• Preventive & Social Medicine
  • AIDS Epidemiology Group
  • Centre for International Health
  • The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit
  • Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology Unit
  • Injury Prevention Research Unit
  • Ngai Tahu Māori Health Research Centre
  • New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre
  • The National Poisons Centre
  • Cancer Society Social & Behavioural Research Unit
• Psychological Medicine
• Surgical Sciences
  • Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
  • Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Surgery
• Women's and Children's Health
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Paediatrics and Child Health
    • Clinical Genetics Group
    • New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit

University of Otago, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences

• Anaesthesia
• Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies
• Māori Indigenous Health Institute (MIHI)
• Medicine
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine
• Paediatrics
• Pathology
• Psychological Medicine
• Public Health and General Practice
• Radiology and the Centre for Bioengineering
• Surgery

University of Otago, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences

• Medicine
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Paediatrics and Child Health
• Pathology and Molecular Medicine
• Primary Health Care and General Practice
• Psychological Medicine
• Public Health
• Radiation Therapy
• Surgery and Anaesthesia

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For further information

Division of Health Sciences Office
Physiotherapy Building
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Tel 64 3 479 7428
Fax 64 3 479 5058
Email health-sciences@otago.ac.nz