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Since 2001, UCRH has worked alongside rural and regional communities to improve health equity through education, research, workforce development and partnership.
To mark our milestone 25th anniversary, we’ve created 25 Years, 25 Stories: a collection of stories that capture the people, partnerships, challenges and achievements that have shaped UCRH from 2001 to today.
Some look back. Some reflect on the present. Others point to what’s still to come. Together, they tell the story of a regional centre built by community and committed to a healthier future.
This story starts with a cow. The scene isn’t a lecture theatre or a hospital ward, but a dairy farm somewhere in the Northern Rivers, where a young medical student from Western Australia found himself unexpectedly drafted into the afternoon...
In the Northern Rivers, disaster is not a distant possibility. It is a lived experience. Floods shape conversations. Cyclones trigger memories. Communities learn to read weather maps with a mixture of caution and experience. For the UCRH, those same moments...
As you enter UCRH one of the first things you see is the Liz Rummery Lecture Theatre. The name on the wall has become familiar to staff and students though the story behind it is less well known. When the...
When speech pathology student Teddy Pun arrived in Lismore in 2018 for his rural clinical placement, he brought a DSLR camera, an eye for a good shot, and very little experience of travelling rurally. He also left his UCRH orientation...
“I think the legacy I see from those [researchers] who came before me is the space that they’ve created. The space that they hold and the encouragement they bring for us young people to come into that space. I stand...
