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The 44th biannual report

The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, 2007 (the 2007 Code) guides institutions and researchers in responsible research practices and promotes research integrity. It assists institutions in developing their own employee codes of conduct and procedures for the investigation of allegations of research misconduct by providing a comprehensive framework of acceptable academic standards.

Colorectal adenocarcinoma, also known as colorectal cancer (CRC) or bowel cancer, is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in Australia. With one of the highest rates of CRC in the world, Australia was also the first country in the world to implement and sustain a national population-based organised CRC screening program using faecal immunochemical tests. NHMRC-funded researchers made key contributions to the program’s initial development and ongoing conduct.

NHMRC funds priority-driven research in response to identified health priority areas to create a healthier future for Australians through relevant and targeted research initiatives which has included eight large scale one-off priority-driven grant opportunities. Though each grant opportunity was unique in design, each had a common focus of establishing a national collaborative research network.NHMRC commissioned ORIMA Research to evaluate the effectiveness of these large-scale grant opportunities in fostering national collaboration in order to provide an evidence base to identify the best practice approaches to designing future priority-driven grant opportunities to achieve national research collaboration. The findings of the evaluation are published in this report.

The Guidelines for Guidelines Handbook is designed to help guideline developers produce high quality guidelines that meet the NHMRC Standards for Guidelines

Evidence to decision and making recommendationsEnsuring guideline development groups follow a systematic and transparent approach to making recommendations from a body of evidence. 

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) e-ASIA 2024 Joint Research Program will support Australian participation and collaboration in leading international collaborative research through the e-ASIA Joint Research Program (e-ASIA JRP). The e-ASIA JRP formulates and supports international joint research projects in the East Asia region on a multilateral basis and promotes the interaction of researchers through scientific workshops. 

The eleventh meeting of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Dietary Guidelines Expert Committee (Expert Committee) was held in October 2024 by videoconference. 

The tenth meeting of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Dietary Guidelines Expert Committee (Expert Committee) was held in August 2024 by videoconference. The meeting discussed the details of the priority research questions to be progressed to evidence review.

Training The most critical training consideration for guideline development is understanding how to make recommendations using the information at hand.

Assessing certainty of evidence How valid and reliable are your conclusions?

Public consultation Public consultation gives the community the opportunity to comment on advice that may directly affect them

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released the 14th edition of its '10 of the Best' publication featuring the outcomes of some of the outstanding research that has been funded under NHMRC’s grant program.

MRFF Emerging Priorities and Consumer-Driven Research Initiative – 2024 Paediatric Brain Cancer Research Grant Opportunity (GO6780)

In the final days of Professor Anne Kelso’s term at NHMRC, we reflect on her contribution to the agency and the sector, including through initiatives to address gender disparities in health and medical research. Professor Kelso explained why such interventions are necessary during an interview with Patricia Karvelas on ABC Radio National Breakfast on November 15 2022.