The Health Services Research Centre — Te Hikuwai Rangahau Hauora focuses on the study of the health and disability needs of communities, and the organisation, planning, provision, use and effectiveness of personal and population-based health and disability services. The Centre's research spans six key topics:

• Māori health
• health system and health services research and evaluation
• priority setting research and evaluation
• access research and evaluation
• Pacific health
• disability issues.