CEO Communiqué: 17 October 2011 Announcing 2011 Funding Round Outcomes Today, the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, the Hon Mark Butler, MP announced the following NHMRC 2011 grants: Project Grants Centres of Research Excellence Partnership Project Grants Research Fellowships Practitioner Fellowships Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellowships Early Career Fellowships Career Development Fellowships Early Career Fellowships Australian-European Collaborative...
75 years of working to build a healthy Australia I am proud and pleased to reflect on the enormous contribution health and medical research has made to the well-being of all Australians on the 75th Anniversary of the establishment of the National Health and Medical Research Council. During the past 75 years, Australia has seen a dramatic improvement in our life expectancy. In the 1930s, when the NHMRC was founded, an Australian male might live to about 63 years and an Australian woman for...
I have wanted to provide you with as much information as possible about RGMS since its problems in January and February and the disruptions to your preparation of applications to NHMRC. I understand that many of you will want to understand more about these circumstances and to have an assurance that NHMRC will be able to maintain the recent improvements in RGMS performance. I have provided below an account of what happened over the period of disruption in January and February, including...