Working with students to shape the future of health

At the CEIH, we’re excit­ed to be work­ing along­side stu­dents through a range of place­ment, project and intern­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties. We believe a strong, peo­ple-cen­tred health sys­tem depends on devel­op­ing and inspir­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of health sys­tem thinkers and doers. 

That’s why we’re thrilled to wel­come our newest stu­dents and recog­nise the val­ue stu­dent engage­ment as an invest­ment in the capa­bil­i­ty and capac­i­ty of the whole system. 

Whether sup­port­ing can­cer care strat­e­gy, data analy­sis, or stake­hold­er engage­ment, our stu­dent con­trib­u­tors are already mak­ing an impact. Stu­dents gain real-world expe­ri­ence aligned to CEIH’s pri­or­i­ties, while we ben­e­fit from fresh think­ing, added capac­i­ty, and crit­i­cal momen­tum on projects that matter. 

What are we work­ing on?

Recent­ly, three Mas­ters of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion (Busi­ness Ana­lyt­ics) stu­dents com­plet­ed an indus­try intern­ship with­in our Clin­i­cal Infor­mat­ics team. They con­tributed mean­ing­ful­ly to deliv­ery of key busi­ness ana­lyt­ic tasks relat­ing to one of our Med­ical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grants, which allowed them to apply their knowl­edge to real world busi­ness problems. 

We’ve also wel­comed Jah­navee, a Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health Stu­dent from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ade­laide. With a back­ground in den­tistry and out­reach work, Jah­navee brings prac­ti­cal pub­lic health expe­ri­ence and a strong equi­ty lens. Over 12 weeks she will be work­ing on a project map­ping the cur­rent land­scape of con­sumer voic­es in con­sumer engage­ment across can­cer care across South Aus­tralia – help­ing inform the future approach for the South Aus­tralian Com­pre­hen­sive Can­cer Net­work (SAC­CaN).

Soon, we’ll also be joined by a PhD intern, under­tak­ing a year-long indus­try place­ment. Her project will explore how South Aus­tralia might bet­ter sup­port peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing home­less­ness who fre­quent­ly attend emer­gency depart­ments, con­tribut­ing to ear­ly think­ing on trau­ma-informed, wrap­around mod­el of care. 

We’re ener­gised by the tal­ent and ded­i­ca­tion stu­dents bring and are excit­ed to grow this work further. 

Want to get involved?

If you’re a researcher or super­vi­sor inter­est­ed in stu­dent place­ments or col­lab­o­ra­tion aligned with CEIH’s pri­or­i­ties, we’d love to con­nect. We have a strong pipeline of project ideas and wel­come oppor­tu­ni­ties to part­ner on shared goals. 

Get in touch with the CEIH to find out more.