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Its role is to foster research on the campus across the whole spectrum from basic biomedical research to health services and population health research. It seeks to support the research endeavours of all professional groups. It acts on behalf of all staff and graduate research students on campus.
Princess Alexandra Hospital is a major tertiary adult hospital serving particularly the Southern Zone of Queensland with a population base of 1.6 million people. It has approximately 650 beds and provides 240,000 occasions of service annually in the outpatient Department. It covers all major specialties of adult medicine with the exception of obstetrics. It is the State centre for renal and liver transplantation and for spinal injuries.
The Southern Clinical Division of the University of Queensland Medical School is centred on the campus. It is an active training venue for Nursing and the Allied Health sciences and post graduate training programs for all the major medical disciplines are located on the campus. In addition to the University of Queensland the Hospital has close interactions with the Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University.