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Our research
Research is essential in helping to inform new treatments and technologies that improve patient outcomes and deliver more effective and efficient health services.
Townsville Hospital and Health Service (HHS) actively supports our staff to engage with, and conduct, quality research. In doing so, we are ensuring our patients have access to new and improved treatment options and we are continuing to strengthen our capacity to attract and retain the very best clinicians, professionals and support staff to our region.
Through collaboration with our academic partners, research organisations, health care providers and educational institutions, including our colleagues across the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC) network, we are positioning the Townsville HHS to be amongst the leading health research organisations in Queensland and across northern Australia.
If you want to find out more about undertaking research with the health service or sign up to the researcher mailing list, contact our unit at TSV-ResearchSupportUnit@health.qld.gov.au or phone (07) 4433 2459.
Our work
Our research is spearheaded by teams of passionate and skilled clinicians who, alongside colleagues from throughout Australia and across international networks, are working to improve health treatments, services and outcomes across a wide range of disciplines including:
- Allied Health
- Dietetics
- Health Economics
- Occupational Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Psychology
- Research Capacity and Capability
- Social Work
- Speech Pathology
- Cancer - Townsville Cancer Centre
- Critical Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology and Diabetes
- Gastroenterology
- Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Orthopaedics
- Perinatal Maternal and Neonatal Health
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Pharmacy
- Transition of Care Pharmacy Project
- Renal
Strategy and reports
At a glance
Research strategy
The Townsville Hospital and Health Service (HHS) is passionate about improving the health and lives of the North Queensland community. Our health service is dispersed across a vast area of regional, rural and remote tropical Queensland.
Our largest facility, the Townsville University Hospital is North Queensland’s only tertiary referral hospital which supports a catchment population of almost 700,000 people including 12 per cent who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders.
We strive to be a leader in health care, research and education for regional Australia. Townsville HHS is a partner of the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC) network, a collaboration of five hospital and health services in northern Queensland (Cairns and Hinterland, Mackay, North West, Torres and Cape, and Townsville), the Northern Queensland Primary Health Network, the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council and James Cook University. TAAHC’s aim is to improve the health of the North Queensland population through translational research and embedding research into health service delivery.
Download the Townsville Hospital and Health Service Research Strategic Plan 2023-2026.
Annual reports
- Research annual report 2017
- Research annual report 2018
- Research annual report 2019
- Research annual report 2020
- Research annual report 2021
- Research annual report 2022
- Research annual report 2023
Our partners
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The Townsville Hospital and Health Service acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which our health facilities have been built and on which we meet today.
We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging; and we value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and knowledge.