Menzies School of Health Research Act 1985

The functions of the School are:

to promote improvement in the health of all people in tropical and central Australia by establishing and developing a centre of scientific excellence in health research and health education;

to advance knowledge in the fields of health research and health education, particularly in relation to human health, and to seek and discover the origins and causes of diseases and ill health;

to use the knowledge so gained to improve methods of prevention, diagnosis and the treatment of disease and ill health in both humans and animals;

to serve as a centre for learning and training in health research and health education;

to promote and encourage post graduate research into matters relating to the functions of the School within Charles Darwin

University as a research school of that University or in co-operation with other medical or educational institutions; and

such other functions as the Board thinks fit.