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

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The cleaners cupboard at the old Moe Hospital is the now-legendary birth place of what has become 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.

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Robert Clough was the manager of the Centre for Rural Health and the School of Rural Health from December 1998 to December 2010. During that time the organisation expanded from one primary site in Gippsland to eight major locations and 30 teaching general practices along a broad diagonal geographical slash: across Victoria from Mildura, through to East Gippsland. In that time staff numbers rose from 45 to over 320, while the expenditure budget expanded from around $2 million to over $30 million. Since leaving Monash, Rob has spent his time writing short stories and playing lawn bowls.