This unit provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to be engaged in health and biomedical research activity in a research laboratory, clinic or population-based research environment at the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania or School of Medicine. The aim of the unit is to provide an experience that will immerse students in research culture. Students undertake a project as part of a research program in one of Menzies five research themes: public health & primary care; neurodegenerative disease/brain injury; cardio-metabolic health and diseases; musculoskeletal health and diseases; and cancer, immunology and genetics; or one of Medicine's research strengths. Students are supervised by a research scientist in a mentoring role, and usually work alongside other research staff and students in the team. The project may be experimental and based in a laboratory, it may involve epidemiological investigation of the causes of disease or the evaluation of a population health intervention, or it may be statistical in nature. A number of compulsory lectures will also be delivered.