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23 September 2011
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 just over 67 years. Today, life...
16 September 2011
Economic benefits of health and medical research – a discussion paper (9 September 2011)
This discussion paper focuses on the economic benefits to Australia from public investment in health and medical research. Economic benefits of health and medical research – a discussion paper (PDF, 451KB)
22 August 2011
A Summary of Peer Review for Project Grants 2011
Professor Warwick Anderson has prepared a discussion paper on the steps involved in peer review for project grants this year. On behalf of the NHMRC he thanks the thousands of researchers who have completed their peer review assessments. NHMRC has been working to improve the information available to applicants, assessors and GRP members about the processes involved in peer review in 2011, particularly for Project Grants. A Summary of Peer Review for Project Grant Applications to NHMRC 2011 (PDF...
15 June 2011
NHMRC Report June 2011
NHMRC CEO, Professor Warwick Anderson recently visited the University of Newcastle to hold an information and feedback session. This was the last of this series of presentations. It is expected that the 2011-2012 series of talks will begin late November. NHMRC Report - Warwick Anderson June 2011 (PDF, 1.8MB)
11 March 2011
Open Letter to the Research Community from Warwick Anderson, CEO NHMRC - 11 March 2011
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...
15 December 2010
Professor Warwick Anderson, CEO National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia speaks with Research Media Ltd
In this wide-ranging discussion, Professor Warwick Anderson, CEO of the NHMRC, details the Australian medical research agenda, and the strategies the institute is employing to safeguard individual and public health throughout the country. Read the full interview here.
10 December 2010
MJA profile of NHMRC CEO Warwick Anderson AM: Power of One
NHMRC CEO, Professor Warwick Anderson, tells the Medical Journal of Australia about what turned him on to science and his motivations for pursuing a career in science research. MJA profile of NHMRC CEO: Power of One (PDF 488KB)
14 October 2010
NHMRC Report October 2010
Presentation to researchers by Warwick Anderson, AM, CEO, NHMRC, delivered as part of the NHMRC information and feedback series being held in research institutions across Australia, September/October 2010. NHMRC Report - Warwick Anderson October 2010 (PDF, 800KB)
30 July 2010
CEO - Research Newsletter 30 July 2010
Progress report on application assessments in 2010 round. Project Grants NHMRC would like to thank all those researchers who have, agreed to provide external assessments of Project Grant applications (over 5400 as of 27th July, 2010). External assessments are crucial to NHMRC’s annual consideration of grant applications for projects. The 2010 Grant Review Panels begin to sit next week, in our Canberra Offices from (2 August and 10 September). Thirty five panels will assess the 3344...
30 July 2010
CEO - Research Newsletter 30 July 2010
Progress report on application assessments in 2010 round. Project Grants NHMRC would like to thank all those researchers who have, agreed to provide external assessments of Project Grant applications (over 5400 as of 27th July, 2010). External assessments are crucial to NHMRC’s annual consideration of grant applications for projects. The 2010 Grant Review Panels begin to sit next week, in our Canberra Offices from (2 August and 10 September). Thirty five panels will assess the 3344...