Growing Brimbank

Where you live affects your health. Access to and quality of health and social services varies across urban, regional, rural and remote environments in Australia. People’s health and wellbeing is also influenced by the social and physical characteristics of their communities.

The Mitchell Institute's flagship place-based program, Growing Brimbank, works in partnership with the Brimbank City Council and Victoria University to explore and address these challenges at a local level, taking a holistic approach that addresses risk factors and challenges in health, wellbeing and education.

Key contacts

Rosemary Calder

Professor of Health Policy, Mitchell Institute

Melinda Craike

Associate Professor of Physical Activity and Health

Children, young people & health in Brimbank

6 January 2022

A new report form Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute shows a significant improvement in young people in Melbourne’s inner west undertaking full-time education.

The Brimbank Atlas of Health & Education 2nd Edition

30 September 2019

Ths Atlas updates the selected indicators of health and education and the contributing social and economic factors that influence the health and education opportunities and outcomes for individuals within communities

Growing Brimbank: An evaluation framework

17 July 2017

Growing Brimbank is a place-based systems approach aimed at lifting health and education outcomes across the life course in the disadvantaged city of Brimbank in the west of Melbourne, Australia.

The Brimbank spatial map of physical & social infrastructure 2017

1 January 2017

The Brimbank Spatial Map of Physical and Social Infrastructure (‘The Spatial Map’) 2017 augments the data collated in the first two foundation reports underpinning the Growing Brimbank program.

Physical activity, sport & health in the City of Brimbank

1 October 2014

This report provides summarises key indicators of participation in physical activity and sport, together with key demographic characteristics, for the City of Brimbank.