About AURHA

The Adelaide University Rural Health Alliance (AURHA) is a multidisciplinary student club that aims to promote rural health.

Membership is open to anyone with an interest in rural health, be they from the country or the city. Members can be students of medicine, nursing, dentistry, oral health, psychology, health sciences - any of the health-related courses at the Uni of Adelaide! We would also love to keep in touch with our alumni, so postgraduates are welcome to join.

AURHA is one of 19 rural health clubs around the country that comprise the National Rural Health Network. As such, we work closely with Flinders Undergraduate Rural Health Society (FURHS) and the Unievrsity of South Australia’s rural health club (ROUSTAH).

The club receives valuable support from the University of Adelaide’s Department of General Practice, the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency (SA), and our major sponsor MDA National.

Since the formation of the club in 1993, the membership has grown to over 200 members. Originally known as the Adelaide University Rural Medical Society (AURMS) the club has expanded to become multdisciplinary. This year a major aim for AURHA is to provide more innovative and interesting opportunities relevant to our members in all fields.

And for the first time we are offering FREE membership to clinical students (medicine years 4-6 and dentistry 3-5, nursing - all years).

As well as holding a wide range of events we maintain regular communication with our members through our publication ‘Rouseabout’, through email, and via this website! Please feel free to contact the AURHA executive at mail@aurha.org.au at any stage for further information.