Prospective health professionals have seen the value of teamwork in rural and remote Australia in a project led by CSU.

There is no shortage of interest from Australian pharmacy students in a national conference at CSU for the next generation of pharmacists.

Growing up in a small country town has inspired Charles CSU student Ms Melissa McIntyre to pursue a career in pharmacy to help fill the gaps in rural health care.

The generosity of the local region in its support of CSU in Wagga Wagga will be on display when the annual Scholarship Presentation Ceremony is held on Wednesday 18 May.

Pharmacy students from CSU have returned from a remote part of Australia where they worked on an important project to rid the local Indigenous communities of two common but treatable diseases.

CSU has begun vaccination training with its pharmacy students in the strongly held belief Australia will follow an international trend to allow pharmacists to vaccinate.

Accessibility and human rights, instead of rigid funding models, should be the priorities when planning health care services for rural and remote Australia says a leading CSU academic.

Pharmacy students studying at CSU have secured valuable financial assistance for their four years of study through the nationally competitive Rural and Remote Pharmacy Scholarship Scheme.

A physiotherapist is treating two people with low back pain. One is a tall, older man and the other is a younger, shorter, over-weight woman. The physiotherapist is faced with a dilemma: "how do I treat these people?" A book edited by a Charles Sturt University academic helps health professionals in these decisions in the light of the current health system.