The Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI) was established in May 2011, bringing together eight research centres. AHSRI is part of the Sydney Business School and aims to improve the management and provision of health and community services in Australia by achieving greater equity in resource distribution, fairer access to services, better continuity within and across the health and community care sectors, and the use of evidence to assist management decision-making.

In addition to producing robust academic output, the products of the Institute include practical and expert advice to a variety of government and non-government agencies and interest groups.

AHSRI is comprised of the following eight research centres:

• Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD)
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC)
• Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre (AROC)
• National Casemix and Classification Centre (NCCC)
• Australian Centre for Clinical Terminology and Information (ACCTI)
• Australasian Occupational Science Centre (AOSC)
• Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration (AHOC)
• Centre for Applied Statistics in Health (CASiH)

The Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD) is the arm of AHSRI that nurtures new research themes and programs. It serves as the ‘generalist health and community’ research group doing strategic project-based research as an AHSRI ‘centre’. The seven other sub-centres focus on specific areas and also operate as research centres within the AHSRI structure.