Leading the way for sustained healthcare improvement
The Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) is a globally-recognised research institute, committed to revolutionising healthcare services, systems, and policies in Australia and internationally.
Headquartered within Macquarie University Health – Australia’s first fully integrated academic health sciences centre – and with a footprint in both the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences and Macquarie Business School, AIHI boasts the largest team of dedicated health services researchers in the nation.
Driving innovation and excellence in healthcare
We drive innovation and excellence through:
- Collaboration – engaging people with lived experience and stakeholders to drive impactful health research.
- Technological innovation – applying informatics and AI to enhance care delivery.
- Performance and implementation – evaluating and optimising healthcare quality and interventions.
- Policy and economic analysis – using advanced modelling to assess policy impacts, cost-effectiveness, and equity.
- Complexity and insight – exploring system dynamics and deriving data-driven solutions for better health and societal outcomes.
Our research centres
AIHI comprises four independent, complementary and highly collaborative research centres, each of which takes a systems perspective to address challenges in healthcare, utilising highly innovative and wide-ranging research methods.