From a Broom Cupboard: 20 Years of Rural Health at Monash University

The cleaner’s cupboard at the old Moe Hospital is the now legendary birth place of what became the Monash University School of Rural Health. This is the fascinating history of the formation of Australia’s first multidisciplinary rural health academic unit in 1992 and its evolution into a school with a footprint stretching across Victoria from Mildura to Lakes Entrance. The story is told through multiple voices, from insiders and outsiders, that together create a collage of depth and sometimes unexpected harmonics. Many of the authors are themselves recognised as pivotal to the ‘rural health revolution’. The twenty years since 1992 have seen a wave of changes in rural health, a wave that rural health at Monash has been surfing since the beginning. These pages relive that ride.