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On 12 March 1956 following a grant of 55,000 pounds received from the Kellogg Foundation, the NSW University of Technology established the School of Hospital Administration to provide graduate level training for hospital administrators throughout Australia. (resolution 737; The University of New South Wales, c.1961: 95) Administratively the School was placed with the Faculty of Commerce. The foundation professor was Dr S B Hatfield (resolution 774), a medical graduate of the University of Sydney who had studies hospital administration at John Hopkins University. (Willis, A H. The University of New South Wales. The Baxter Years: 76) From 1957 the School offered courses leading to a Master of Hospital Administration and a Certificate of Hospital Administration, as well as an extramural in-service training course through the School's Department of External Studies on behalf of the statutory health authorities in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia which was a prerequisite for the diploma issued by the Australian Institute of Hospital Administrators. (The University of New South Wales, c.1961: 95; Handbook for External Students, 1978: 4 V56/2) In August 1967 the Kellogg Foundation made a grant of $330,060 for the strengthening and expansion of the graduate programme in education for hospital and health care administration. At the same time the School was transferred from the Faculty of Commerce to the Board of Vocational Studies. (Willis: 163) In September 1968 Council approved the introduction of the Bachelor of Health Administration degree. (resolution 68/169) On 12 May 1969 Council changed the name of the school to the School of Health Administration. (resolution 69/93) In 1970 it introduced a graduate diploma for practising health administrators as well as a Master of Health Administration which either could be completed through coursework or by research. (Submission to the Faculty of Professional Studies Review Group by the Faculty of Professional Studies: 2, 8 SRF - Professional Studies, Faculty of) Administratively the School was placed with the Board of Professional Studies during 1974, and with the Faculty of Professional Studies from 1975. At a Council meeting on 5 June 1989 it was resolved that the School of Health Administration should be renamed the School of Health Services Management. (resolution CL 89/60) On 2 December 1996 as part of the UNSW 2000 planning exercise Council resolved to disestablish the Faculty of Professional Studies from 1 January 1997 and transfer the School of Health Services Management to the Faculty of Medicine. (resolution CL96/88/3; Uniken 6 December 1996: 4) On 11 December 2000 Council resolved (resolution CL000/88) to disestablish the schools of Health Services Management, Community Medicine, and Medical Education from 1 January 2001 and combine all the schools into a school with the interim name of School of Community Medicine, Health Services Management and Medical Education. The school name became the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the health services management, medical education and community medicine programs were absorbed into the school. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 12/03/1956-31/12/2000

The Faculty of Commerce was formed in principle by Council at its meeting on 12 July 1954 (resolution 431i). The Faculty was then officially launched at the 11th March, 1957 meeting of Council (resolution 57/37). Professor David Culloden Rowan was the first Dean of the Faculty, with the initial schools being Accountancy, Economics and Hospital Administration. The inaugural meeting of the Faculty occurred on 5th June, 1957. In 1986 - 1987 a Committee organised by the Vice-Chancellor conducted a review of the Faculty. As a result, at the Council meeting on 11th July, 1988 the name of the Faculty was altered to the Faculty of Commerce & Economics effective 1 August 1988 (resolution 88/90). On 3 July 2006 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce & Economics, subject to the approval of the Academic Board. The Faculty was to be amalgamated with the Australian Graduate School of Management to form the new Faculty of Business. The Board approved this on 1 August 2006 (resolution AB06/91) and at the Board's 7 November 2006 meeting, it noted that the Faculty of Commerce & Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management should be considered to have ceased to have the functions and powers of faculties after [the first Faculty Board meeting of the Faculty of Business on Thursday 23 November 2006]' (resolution AB06/139). Subordinate agency: Graduate Studies Program Sub-Committee of the Higher Degree Committee of the Faculty of Commerce - 15/07/1980 - 31/12/1986 Subordinate agency: Dean's Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Commerce (? - 1988) / Commerce & Economics (1988 - ) - 26/01/1977 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Hospital Administration (1956 - 1969) / School of Health Administration (1969 - 1989) / School of Health Services Management (1989 - 2000) - 12/03/1956 - 31/08/1967 Subordinate agency: School of Accountancy (1955 - 1988) / Accounting (1988 - ) - 11/03/1957 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Librarianship (1959 - 1992) / School of Information, Library and Archive Studies (1992 - 1999) - 01/01/1997 - 07/06/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems - 01/08/1988 - 07/06/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Business Administration - 14/07/1958 - 11/11/1968 Subordinate agency: Graduate School of Business - 11/11/1968 - 31/01/1978 Subordinate agency: School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour - 01/08/1988 - 21/06/2004 Subordinate agency: Department of Marketing (1966 - 1970) / School of Marketing (1970 - ) - 09/05/1966 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Finance - 01/05/1968 - 13/09/1971 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems, Technology and Management - 07/06/1999 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC) (2000 - 2011) / Korea Research Institute (2011 - ) - 20/06/2000 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Australian Centre for International Business - 12/02/1998 - 01/06/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Banking and Finance (1988 - 1991) / National Centre for Banking and Capital Markets (1991 - 1997) (NCBC) / Asia Pacific Financial Research Centre (ASPAC) (1997 - 2003) - 21/09/1988 - 13/01/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Advanced Empirical Software Research (CAESAR) (1995 - 2001) / Advanced Software Engineering Research (CAESER) (2001 - 2002) - 06/09/1995 - 02/12/2002 Subordinate agency: School of Organisation and Management (2004 - 2011) / School of Management (2012 - ) - 21/06/2004 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Asian Business and Language Studies (1995 - 1998) / International Business (1998 - 2004) - 05/06/1995 - 21/06/2004 Subordinate agency: Centre for Business Information Technology (CBIT) (1988 - c. 1990) / Information Technology Research Centre (ITRC) (c. 1990 - 1997) - 07/09/1988 - 01/10/1997 Subordinate agency: Japanese Economic and Management Studies Centre - 01/08/1979 - 31/12/1997 Subordinate agency: Department of Legal Studies and Taxation - 01/08/1988 - 05/06/1995 Subordinate agency: Centre for Applied Marketing (CAM) - 01/01/1998 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Economics - 01/06/1956 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Behavioural Science (1970 - 1978) / Organisational Behaviour (1979 - 1983) / Organisational Behaviour Unit (1983 - 1988) - 14/07/1976 - 12/09/1983 Subordinate agency: Centre for Pensions and Superannuation (CPS) - 14/12/2001 - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Tourism Policy Studies - 19/10/1998 - 13/02/2004 Subordinate agency: School of Banking and Finance - 01/08/1988 - 03/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Asian Studies Unit - 01/08/1990 - 05/06/1995 Subordinate agency: School of Business Law and Taxation - 05/06/1995 - 23/11/2006 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 12/07/1954-23/11/2006

This series consists of the booklet leaflet collection of the School of Hospital Administration / School of Health Administration / School of Health Services Management. The material is typed and maintained in a manilla folder and includes booklets, leaflets, reports, handbooks, papers, prospectus and other material as released by the school, including program information. Also included are W. K. Kellogg Foundation Grant reports.

This series contains the annual reports of the Centre for Hospital Management and Information Systems Research / Clinical Governance Research in Health. Each item is a typed volume on the happenings within the centre throughout the year. The Archives' holdings of this series are incomplete.

On 11 December 2000 Council created the School of Community Medicine, Health Services Management & Medical Education within the Faculty of Medicine effective from 1 January 2001, as a result of the disestablishment of the schools of Community Medicine, Health Services Management and Medical Education (resolution CL000/88). At the time it was noted that following advice from the Faculty of Medicine Board the name of the school would be revised and thus it seems to have taken some time before the merger was completed. On 25 February 2002 Council approved the change of name of the school to the School of Public Health and Community Medicine with effect from 26 February 2002 (resolution CL002/8d). The first head of school was Professor Anthony Zwi. In 2008 the head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine was Professor Raina MacIntyre. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/2001-

The Faculty of Medicine was formally approved by Council on 11th July, 1960 (resolution 60/62i). Functions within the Faculty had, however, already been in operation, with the first Dean, Professor F. F. Rundle, being appointed from 1st May, 1960, and the inaugural Faculty meeting taking place on 23rd June, 1960. The initial schools within the Faculty were Anatomy, Medicine, Pathology, Physiology and Surgery. In 2013 the Faculty of Medicine, administered by Dean Professor Peter Smith, included four Schools, five Clinical Schools and eighteen Centres. Subordinate agency: Ad Hoc 5:2 Committee of the Faculty of Medicine - 26/03/1969 - 25/10/1972 Subordinate agency: Medical (1960 - 1963) / Faculty of Medicine Library Committee (1963 - c. 1982) - 17/11/1960 - 17/02/1982 Subordinate agency: School of Community Medicine - 10/09/1973 - 31/12/2000 Subordinate agency: School of Hospital Administration (1956 - 1969) / School of Health Administration (1969 - 1989) / School of Health Services Management (1989 - 2000) - 01/01/1997 - 31/12/2000 Subordinate agency: School of Physiology (1960 - 1970) / Physiology & Pharmacology (1970 - 2001) - 11/07/1960 - 31/07/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Anatomy - 11/07/1960 - 31/07/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Pathology - 11/07/1960 - 31/07/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Refugee Research - 02/02/1999 Subordinate agency: School of Medical Sciences - 01/08/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Community Medicine, Health Services Management & Medical Education (2001 - 2002) / School of Public Health and Community Medicine (2002 - ) - 01/01/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Medicine - 11/07/1960 - 10/02/1992 Subordinate agency: School of Surgery - 11/07/1960 - 10/02/1992 Subordinate agency: Greater Murray Clinical School (2000 - 2001) / School of Rural Health (2001 - 2005) / Rural Clinical School (2006 - ) - 01/01/2000 Subordinate agency: School of Psychiatry - 19/10/1962 Subordinate agency: School of Women's and Children's Health - 01/01/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Medical Education, Research and Development (CMERD) (1973 - 1983) / School of Medical Education (1983 - 2000) - 22/01/1973 - 31/12/2000 Subordinate agency: School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - 14/09/1962 - 31/12/2000 Subordinate agency: School of Paediatrics - 18/06/1962 - 31/12/2000 Subordinate agency: School of Human Genetics - 11/07/1966 - 10/09/1973 Subordinate agency: Prince Henry / Prince of Wales Clinical School (1992 - c. 2002) / Prince of Wales Clinical School (c. 2002 - ) - 10/02/1992 Subordinate agency: St George (1992 - 2013) / St George and Sutherland (2013 - ) Clinical School - 10/02/1992 Subordinate agency: St Vincent's Clinical School - 10/02/1992 Subordinate agency: South Western Sydney Clinical School - 10/02/1992 Subordinate agency: Centre for International and Multicultural Health (2000 - 2003) / Culture and Health (2003 - 2005) - 06/06/2000 - 26/07/2005 Subordinate agency: National Perinatal Statistics Unit (NPSU) (1997 - 2010) / National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU) (2010 - ) - 01/11/1997 Subordinate agency: Centre for Health Telematics (1999 - 2000) / Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) (2000 - 2014) - 21/10/1999 - 02/11/2014 Subordinate agency: Centre for Hospital Management and Information Systems Research (1990 - 2001) / Clinical Governance in Research and Health (2001 - 2014) - 01/01/1997 - 02/11/2014 Subordinate agency: Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Research (CTVR) (1992 - 2003) / Centre for Vascular Research (CVR) (2003 - 2015) - 25/11/1992 - 21/07/2015 Subordinate agency: National Health & Medical Research Council Special Unit in AIDS Epidemiology & Clinical Research (1986 - c. 1989) / National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research (c. 1989 - 2010) / Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society (2010 - ) - 01/04/1986 Subordinate agency: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) - 28/05/1986 Subordinate agency: Centre for Immunology - 12/08/1983 Subordinate agency: Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Unit (BMSU) (1975 - 1998) / Ray Williams Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Facility (BMSF) (1998 - 2002) / Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility (BMSF) (2002 - ) - 01/06/1990 - 31/12/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Infection and Inflammation Research (CIIR) - 23/03/2006 - 31/12/2009 Subordinate agency: Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity (CPHCE) - 02/05/2005 Subordinate agency: Centre for Public Health - 18/05/1988 - 31/08/2002 Subordinate agency: UNSW Cancer Research Centre - 07/03/2007 Subordinate agency: Centre for Continuing Medical Education - 28/03/1984 - 01/10/1996 Subordinate agency: Centre for Experimental Neurology - 30/07/1986 - 01/06/1992 Subordinate agency: Centre for Chemosensory Research (CCR) - 01/02/1997 - 01/02/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Cardiovascular Research - 20/03/1985 - 31/05/1992 Subordinate agency: Electron Microscope Unit (1) (1962 - c.1985) / Biomedical Electron Microscope Unit (c.1985 - 1995) - 01/01/1962 - 23/03/1995 Subordinate agency: Mood Disorders Research Centre - 20/02/2001 - 14/02/2003 Subordinate agency: Institute of Health Innovation (2007 - 2009) / Australian Institute of Health Innovation (2009 - 2014) - 24/12/2007 - 02/11/2014 Subordinate agency: Hay Field Station - 15/05/1999 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/05/1960-

On 7 August 1990 the Academic Board recommended the creation of the Centre for Hospital Management and Information Systems Research within the Faculty of Professional Studies (resolution 90/50). The Centre was officially launched by the Vice-Chancellor on 20 May 1991 and the founding director was Professor George Palmer (file 910810). On 2 December 1996 Council resolved to disestablish the Faculty of Professional Studies from 1 January 1997 (resolution CL96/88/3). Consequently the Centre was transferred to the Faculty of Medicine from this date. On 7 August 2001 the Academic Board recommended a change in the name of the centre to the Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health (resolution AB01/51). This was approved by the Acting Vice-Chancellor on 12 October 2001 (file 2002/1061). In 2008 the director of the Centre was Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite. From 3 November 2014 the Centre transferred to Macquarie University under the new name Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science (http://aihi.mq.edu.au/news/aihi-joins-macquarie-university - Accessed 29 July 2015). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 07/08/1990 - c. 2/11/2014

The Biomedical Engineering Centre is of a multi-disciplinary nature. During 1973 several committees were concerned with the drafting of a proposal to establish a Centre for Biomedical Engineering within UNSW. As a result the university submission made to the AUC refers to this centre as one of the few major development projects proposed for the 1976-1978 Triennium. The university's activities in this area had steadily increased involving staff from the faculties of Medicine, Applied Science, Biological Sciences, Science and Engineering. Academic staff members felt at the time that the existence of such a centre as a formally established entity would help those involved to attract funds from outside sources. The centre was seen as providing a consolidated foundation for work in this area by conducting and sponsoring research; establishing postgraduate programs; sponsoring the development of appropriate undergraduate subjects; and organising conferences, meetings and discussions on biomedical engineering. On 27 August 1974 the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Myers, agreed to the informal establishment within the university of a centre for biomedical engineering and to the establishment of a management committee under the chairmanship of Prof Svensson. The committee comprised Profs NL Svensson (Mechanical Engineering), Chairman, R Huckstep (Orthopaedics), Drs J Loughman (Anaesthetics), M O'Rourke (Cardiology), P Farrell (Chemical Engineering), and Mr P Bason (Electrical Engineering). One of ithe committee's briefs was to plan the future structure and functions of the centre. The Vice-Chancellor provided initial funding of $750 for use by the centre in 1975 with the expectation that the various participating faculties would take over full responsibility for the associated costs in subsequent years. The centre had the support of the deans of the faculties of Biological Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The major activities of the centre fell in the areas of teaching, research and clinical application. On 24 September 1976, after consideration of the management committee's proposals, the Vice-Chancellor formally approved the establishment of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering in the University of New South Wales as a centre for interdisciplinary studies and developments involving engineering, medicine and the biological sciences. He also approved the management structure of the centre involving an Advisory Board to be responsible for the overall operating policy of the centre and a Management Committee to be responsible generally for the execution of policy objectives, for the control of the staff and financial management of the centre and for the proposals of further research and development projects. In 1977 Professor Peter Farrell was appointed Director of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering. Growth of the centre was rapid. Within a few years the centre had attracted considerable interest in its research activities and received extensive funding from industry, government and private research foundations. Its international reputation in artificial organs research meant that already in 1979 most of its funding for artificial organs research came from sources outside the university (AMA Gazette, 19 July 1979). In 1980 the centre offered postgraduate programs in biomedical engineering for students with either an engineering/ scientific or medical background; it also co-ordinated biomedical engineering research in schools of the university and in hospitals in biomechanics, medical instrumentation, cardiology, physiology and rehabilitation engineering. The centre's growth and success meant that in 1980 it was suggested by senior staff that the Centre for Biomedical Engineering should be located within a faculty to put on it on a more permanent footing. The faulty of Engineering, which had coordinated all the centre's activities since its establishment, was suggested as an appropriate home. In 1981 the centre became a faculty unit within the faculty of Engineering. The position of Director, Centre for Biomedical Engineering in the faculty unit, faculty of Engineering, was established and Professor Peter O'Farrell was seconded to that position effective from 8 May 1981. Administratively within the faculty the unit operated and was treated like any other school. A review of research centres at UNSW by Professor Alan Gilbert in 1990 defined the role of research centres at the university. The Centre for Biomedical Engineering lay outside the guidelines of research centres in respect to the teaching function it provided. Resulting from this the centre sought to have its name changed to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. At its meeting on 5 July 1994 the Academic Board resolved that it be recommended that Council approve the proposed change of status of the centre. Council at its meeting on 29 August 1994 resolved as follows: (CL94/72)(b) That Council approve the proposed change of status of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. The head of school in 2008 was Associate Professor Anne Simmons. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - in year of 01/01/1974-

This series contains research publications of Robert Gillam of the School of Hospital Administration. Each item is a spiral-bound volume, which contains research reports published with the help of funds from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, USA. It is unclear how many reports were published in total.

This series consists of the Visiting Committee Reports / Annual Reports of the School of Health Administration / Health Services Management. Each item in the series is a typed set of papers, which have been either stapled or paper bound together. There are three types of reports included in the series - the first is the original report of the school to the Visiting Committee, the second is this original report bound together with the minutes of the Visiting Committee's meeting, which was then submitted to Council and the third are the later annual reports, which form the same function. Also included are loose minutes for the Visiting Committee meetings. The Archives does not hold any copies of the reports of the school to the Visiting Committee for the years 1970, 1972, 1982, 1984 and 1986 - 1987 or Visiting Committee reports to Council for the years 1969 - 1972, 1975 and 1978. Separate copies of the Visiting Committee minutes are not held for the years 1976, 1980 - 1984 and 1986 - 1987. No reports are held for the years 1988 - 1989 or 1991 and onwards.