To improve Indigenous health we need to find out what we are doing right and what needs improving. Not just in the health care system but in the social and physical environment – housing, social justice, racism, employment, women’s and environmental health.

Our Services, Systems and Society Division looks behind the symptoms to determine the causes of ill health – if our systems are not working, we want to know why and how to fix it.

We are striving to address poor health outcomes with better health, social and non-medical services, including better access and coordination of services and research into the different ways people use health services.

Menzies researchers work alongside the staff of hospitals, clinics and local government councils to discover the best way to deliver health care across Australia.