Tibet scenery. Photo: W. Holmes

CIH staff have a broad range of technical skills and adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to address complex health and development issues.  Specific skill areas include:

  • HIV prevention and care
  • Health systems management
  • Program planning, design and implementation
  • Health services management
  • Strategy and policy development
  • Gender and social analysis
  • Women and children’s nutrition
  • Qualitative studies and other applied research
  • Maternal and child health
  • Research ethics
  • Paediatric health care
  • Evaluation methods
  • Neo natal health
  • Education methods
  • Reproductive health
  • Curriculum and training materials development
  • Male sexual health
  • Training workshop facilitation
  • Refugee health
  • Capacity assessment of civil society orgs
  • Primary health care
  • Organisational development
  • Communicable disease control
  • Essential drugs supply and management
  • Immunisation
  • Advocacy
  • Health promotion and behaviour change
  • Harm reduction
  • Program & Project Management

CIH works in partnership with other international agencies, domestic and overseas government agencies, INGOs and national NGOs, bilateral projects, and networks of health organisations (both government and non-government).  Within these partnership arrangements CIH is involved in delivering health programs in more than 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa.  CIH initially established offices in Indonesia and Nepal, but as the work expanded further offices were established in Lao PDR, Tibet, Burma and Mozambique.  

In acknowledgement of its technical expertise, the Burnet Institute is one of only two Southern Hemisphere UNAIDS Collaborative Centres.  Burnet’s expertise is further recognised by the invitation extended to Dr Mike Toole, Head of CIH to participate on the Global Fund’s Technical Review Panel.