The Health Transition Centre was established in 1988 by The Australian National University to foster work on the cultural, social and behavioural aspects of health. Health transition refers to the broad study of mortality transition involving interaction of cultural, social and behavioural factors with economic and medical factors to produce declines in morbidity and mortality.
The centre has published several series and books on health transition, many focusing on HIV/AIDS, and previously published the Health Transition Review.