The Curtin University Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion (WACHPR) is a multi-disciplinary centre within the Division of Health Science at Curtin University. It operates within the School of Public Health and is closely aligned with the Health Promotion Academic Program.

The WACHPR has achieved national and international recognition for its work in school and community-based intervention research, especially in the areas of injury control, drug use and mental health. The WACHPR is acknowledged as an innovative and active contributor to national and international health promotion research, education and training.

The WACHPR has conducted applied research and provided consultancy evaluation, education, training and curriculum support services to government and non-government health and education organisations throughout Australia and internationally since 1986.

The WACHPR staff has expertise in data collection and analyses, behavioural science, intervention development and dissemination, and qualitative and quantitative program (formative, process and impact) evaluation.

In recent years the WACHPR has been devoted to bringing together staff and students interested in being involved in applied health promotion research and training. The WACHPR employs over 15 professional and support staff, and has an active pool of over 60 trained student volunteers who have worked on research projects in the School of Public Health building at Curtin University of Technology, Bentley Campus.

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