The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is an independent statutory Australian Government agency with more than 35 years of experience working with health and welfare data.
Our role
Our role is to provide meaningful information and statistics for the benefit of the Australian people by:
- developing, maintaining and promoting statistical information standards for the health, community services and housing assistance sectors
- collecting and managing data on health and welfare issues, including from state, territory and federal government agencies
- analysing and releasing a range of health and welfare products (data and reports) to key policy areas, to support better policy and service delivery decisions
- enhancing data resources with the addition of new health and welfare data assets to the AIHW’s data holdings to fill data gaps in the health and welfare sectors
- modernising the presentation and availability of national health and welfare products to meet the needs of diverse audiences such as state, territory and federal government agencies, universities, research centres, and non-government organisations.
Our vision
Our vision is to provide stronger evidence (data and information) for better decisions and improved health and welfare for all Australians.
Our organisation goals
 | 1. A trusted leader in health and welfare data and analysis |
 | 2. Innovative producers of data sets and analysis |
 | 3. A strong strategic partner |
 | 4. Recognised for our organisational excellence |
 | 5. Recognised by First Nations people and organisations as an exemplary partner and organisation |
Corporate plan
Our corporate plan sets out the key priorities and activities we will pursue to achieve these strategic organisation goals. It also contains our AIHW Strategy, which sets out the relationships between our goals, outputs, activities and strategic context.
The corporate plan is the AIHW’s primary strategic document.
Our stakeholders
We work with a broad range of stakeholders – with some of our relationships dating back to our establishment in 1987.
We convene or participate in around 100 committees with experts from many different subject areas, meaning we're informed by contemporary best practice and a wide range of perspectives, including:
- Australian Bureau of Statistics and other Australian Government agencies
- state & territory governments
- local governments
- universities
- research centres
- non-government organisations
- international organisations.
We also have in place many partnership agreements and memorandums of understanding, including with:
- the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
- the Department of Social Services
- Cancer Australia
- the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
The AIHW chairs, is a member of, or provides secretariat services to, a large number of national committees.