Bond’s Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine has earned a reputation for the excellence of its education and research in medical, health and sports sciences. It is our mission to stay at the cutting edge of healthcare education and research, which is supported by our innovative, accelerated programs and world-class facilities. Whether students aspire to take on the healthcare sector as a clinician or an innovator, lead research in their field of choice, or practise as a medical doctor, an exciting career in the health sciences begins right here.
At Bond, student experience is at the heart of everything we do, and this shines through across the breadth of our program offering. Every student in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine has access to small class sizes, personalised attention from skilled academics and work experience and internship opportunities throughout their degree.
What also sets us apart is our willingness to pioneer new methodologies, practices and techniques in both the teaching and research arenas. Bond University offers the fastest pathway to gaining your Doctor of Medicine in Australasia through our Medical Program that sees students begin as undergraduates and complete both components of their training in just 4 years and 8 months. We spearheaded Australia’s first Doctor of Physiotherapy program, and our pioneering educators have invented technologies, in use at Bond and other institutions, that allow students to explore the human body in 3D and augmented reality.
Bond’s Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine has fostered thousands of exceptional graduates now working as highly-skilled healthcare and health research professionals – discover why.
It’s a classroom… but not as you know it
The Faculty’s world-class facilities can be found at Bond University campus, Bond Institute of Health & Sport and the Bond University Clinical Education and Research Centre located at Robina Hospital. This includes clinical skills rooms, simulated hospital wards, treatment centres, therapy rooms, laboratories, a community clinic and a High Performance Training Centre. Within these real-world environments, you may work with simulated participants, state of the art technology including virtual and augmented reality and real-life,elite athletes preparing for high-level competitions.
The Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine at Bond regularly tops the charts across crucial student experience, graduate outcomes and employer satisfaction categories in national surveys, aligning with the University’s overall results.
Health
Health
Undergraduate
5 stars and #1 in Australia for Learner Engagement. Student Support and Learning Resources
5 stars for and #1 in Queensland for Teaching Quality
5 stars for Overall Experience and Skills Development
Postgraduate
5 stars and #1 in Queensland for Skills Development, Learner Engagement and Learning Resources
Medicine
Medicine
Undergraduate
5 stars in and #1 in Australia for Learner Engagement
5 stars and #1 in Queensland for Student Support and Learning Resources
#1 in Queensland for Teaching Quality
Postgraduate
#1 in Queensland for Learning Resources
5 stars and #1 in Australia for Full-time Employment
Science
Science
Undergraduate
5 stars and #1 in Australia for Skills Development, Learner Engagement, Learning Resources, Student Support and Overall Experience.
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation
Postgraduate
5 stars and #1 in Queensland for Teaching Quality, Learning Resources, Student Support and Overall Experience
#1 in Queensland for Skills Development and Learner Engagement
5 stars and #1 in Australia for Full-time Employment
A learning experience like no other
All of the academics, researchers and support staff within our Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine are dedicated to creating a valuable learning experience that will see students enter their industry of choice with the knowledge and skills necessary to hit the ground running, and succeed.
Our academics have spent, and continue to spend, time in industry honing their craft, giving them a comprehensive understanding of how to teach high-level concepts. They also offer all their students individualised support.
When it comes to specific programs, students will learn from these incredible minds in highly practical settings – something that’s key to becoming an industry-ready graduate. Many of the subjects within our health sciences and medicine degrees have a hands-on component that will see students learn in a simulated lab or hospital environment, often with ‘simulated’ patient actors. Then, depending on their study area of choice, students may also gain opportunities to put their skills to the test with real patients in clinic, hospital, community or private practice settings.
We also have a strong commitment to student wellbeing, with a team of staff, including a full-time registered psychologist, dedicated to ensuring students are supported throughout their studies.
Limitless opportunities
Then, there are those standout moments that give the Bond student experience an unbeatable edge. For a medical student, it could be helping to deliver a baby during a placement on a remote island or in an Indigenous community. For an exercise and sports science student, perhaps it’s working with elite athletes from major national or international sporting teams and honing their skills on high-grade professional training equipment at the Bond Institute of Health & Sport (BIHS). Budding nutrition and dietetic practitioners might undertake an internship or overseas study tour, while a research and PhD candidate could reap the rewards of learning from international experts in the Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine.
Regardless of the field they pursue, and whatever unique experiences become the highlight of their time at university, our graduates will leave Bond with the confidence, clinical experience and compassion to become a health professional that can make a real difference to people’s lives.
Connected to industry
Our strong affiliations with leading healthcare institutions and industry partners shape our curriculum, inform our research priorities, enrich class initiatives and clinical placement programs, and open doors to promising career pathways for our students. Collaborating with a diverse array of affiliated organisations and industry advisory boards, we benefit from their valuable support, expertise, and influence. Through these strategic partnerships, our boards actively contribute to the realisation of our mission and objectives.
As the Managing Director of Chatsworth Associates, Andrew has worked with innovators, entrepreneurs and established business owners to plan and execute over $200m in equity and debt raisings, wealth creation plans, corporate transactions and international business development programs.
Chatsworth Associates is a boutique advisory firm providing strategic advice to business owners in emerging and high growth companies innovating in the Bio-Medical, Medical Device, Mobile Health, Health IT, Aged Care, Hospitality, Food Service and Food Technology sectors.
Dr Markwell is a senior staff specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Currently Alex is the Chair, QLD Clinical Senate.
She is an experienced emergency physician skilled in clinical medicine, research and medical education. She has graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves on various committees and boards.
Professor Nick Zwar joined Bond University in 2019 as Executive Dean. Nicks’ background is in medicine as a general practitioner and as a primary health care teacher and researcher. Nick was previously Dean of Medicine at University of Wollongong and prior to that Professor of General Practice and Deputy Dean (Education) at the University of New South Wales.
He has a national and international reputation in health services research on prevention and management of chronic illness, with a focus on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Other clinical, teaching and research interests include tobacco control, immunisation and travel health. Professor Zwar has led the development, and contributed to several sets of Australian and international clinical practice guidelines and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Over the course of his academic career Nick has maintained involvement in clinical practice, working part time as a general practitioner for over 30 years.
With significant experience working as an executive and senior leader in the University sector, Fiona applies strategic analytical skills with effective communication to engage with stakeholders, set strategy, shape culture and deliver results.
Her areas of expertise include operational improvement (i.e. people, systems and process), leadership development, change management, project coordination, risk management, strategic planning, and business model implementation and evaluation.
Rebecca is a Senior Executive passionate about making healthcare brilliant for all Australians.
As Senior Executive of Member Health at Australia’s largest Health Insurer, Medibank Private, Rebecca is responsible for leading the division that understands and improves the health of Medibank’s 3.8 million customers through direct service provision in the areas of Health Promotion, Preventative Health, Medibank at Home (Australia’ largest Virtual Hospital), Short Stay Hospital Admissions, Virtual Health and Health Advice & Navigation.
Rebecca maintains several Non-Executive Directorships including the Primary Health Network of Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay and Central Queensland, CASPA Family Services and Healthy North Coast. Rebecca has been included in the AFR Boss’ Top 10 Young Executives.
Vanessa Rebgetz was appointed Principal of Queensland Academy for Health Sciences in 2019, a state high school uniquely co-located in the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, an emerging innovation hub for the Asia-Pacific Region. She brings a first career in the Law as a practising solicitor and 27 years of experience in education having taught and led in Business and Humanities Faculties in a number of secondary and P-12 schools on the Gold Coast.
As Principal of an academically selective senior high school, her expertise is in leading a team dedicated to driving a culture of wellbeing support in a cutting-edge educational experience to challenge young people to achieve beyond world benchmarked results in the accredited excellence of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, a rigorous and globally recognised pre-university curriculum. Student research is recognised at the highest level at the national CSIRO research body and students are published authors of scientific research. With Health and Medicine being the highly sought post-schooling pathway for the 100% of Academy graduates proceeding to university studies, schooling programs also focus on futures in Engineering, Technology, Finance, Law and Business.
Proudly educated in her high school years on the Gold Coast, Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Laws and Arts from the University of Queensland and a Master of Educational Leadership from Griffith University. She holds positions on the Education Advisory Board with Experience Gold Coast, the Gold Coast Secondary Principals Alliance and the Department of Education International Gold Coast Schools Alliance. She has presented at national and international conferences on student wellbeing.
Rhonda Morton is an experienced executive leader with more than 20 years' success delivering outcomes across healthcare, higher education, local government, and consulting sectors in Australia. She is Managing Director of New Evolution Consulting and Director Strategic Partnerships (Australia) for Streamliners, leading national initiatives to integrate Evidence-Based pathways and enhance healthcare system performance.
Rhonda has held senior leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer of a Queensland Hospital and Health Service, where she led a significant period of growth, infrastructure development, and service integration. Her leadership has delivered transformational outcomes across clinical, academic, and operational domains.
She brings deep expertise in organisational strategy, governance, performance leadership, and system-level reform. Rhonda is passionate about building high-performance cultures, advancing healthcare transformation, and developing future leaders, and continues to work nationally with government, universities, health services, and professional bodies to drive positive change.
Professor Andrea Bialocerkowski is a strategic senior leader and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with over a decade of expertise in learning and teaching, spanning entry-level to post-experience education, training, and professional development (micro-credentials and short courses).
She has extensive experience and highly developed skills in transformational and inclusive leadership, external engagement and entrepreneurship, governance, change management, workforce planning, and financial acumen, with a focus on the university level in learning and teaching, as well as micro-credentials. She has a proven track record of securing multi-million-dollar funding from the Commonwealth and establishing sustainable industry partnerships. Andrea is an active researcher with a track record of gaining competitive funding from the Office of Learning and Teaching and the ARC.
These projects span how tertiary students balance work, study, and employability through post-practice educational processes. Her current ARC-D grant seeks to understand the precarity in Australia’s youth workforce. Andrea also maintains an interest in physiotherapy, particularly in the rehabilitation of upper limb injuries, through her industry connections, including the Australian Hand Therapy Association and the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
Andrea currently chairs the Credentialing Council, which awards the credential of Accredited Hand Therapist, and she is a Life Member of the Australian Therapy Association for her substantial contributions to Australian hand therapy.
Dr. Simon Kos is an internationally recognised leader in digital health, working in senior global, regional and national executive roles for over twenty years.
Currently he is the global chief medical officer at Heidi Health. He works internally with the talented Heidi team on product roadmap, regulatory stewardship, and go-to-market enablement. Externally he is responsible for global brand ambassadorship, clinical engagement and thought leadership.
Simon is a co-founder at Lumyra.AI where he helps leaders in business and government safely navigate AI to build adaptive, sustainable organisations. He is also a published researcher and university lecturer, and an investor, advisor and board member to digital health companies.
Medical Program student Maddy takes us on a tour of the bustling hub for health sciences and medicine at Bond.
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A tour of the Health Sciences & Medicine building
Join Bondy Kaelyn on this behind-the-scenes tour of the incredible Bond Institute of Health & Sport (BIHS) - our world-class teaching and training facility which is home to Bond Allied Health students studying exercise and sports science, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nutrition and dietetic practice, as well as the Bond University Health & Wellness community clinic.
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Join us for a guided tour of the Bond Institute of Health & Sport
Where our graduates are now
The professional outcomes for Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine graduates are boundless, and that’s reflected by our diverse cohort of alumni. Bond graduates will join a talented group of innovators, leaders and big thinkers working all around the world.
Our commitment to meaningful research
Research is at the core of Bond’s Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine and is reflected through our comprehensive facilities and the exceptional staff that work on cutting-edge research every day.
We are home to the internationally-renowned Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare (IEBH), which is headed up by some of the world’s leading experts in evidence-based medicine and clinical practice. The IEBH produces globally-recognised research across a range of interest areas and works with partner organisations to develop tangible solutions to real-world healthcare problems.
Including IEBH, our faculty is home to five research centres and a plethora of research groups designed to support ongoing research efforts in addition to creating adaptable and reflexive graduates who emerge from their studies ready to problem-solve, challenge dated ideas, and ultimately, enact change.
