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Mental health is a National Health Priority Area and a major health issue receiving NHMRC research support.
NHMRC offers a range of funding pathways, depending on your objectives, funding amount, timeframes and other preferences. The Partnering Decision Tree below presents potential partners with options to assist in making a decision on the type of funding model to adopt.
Knowledge growth through research underpins improvements in Australia's health and health services. This research can be fundamental or can be applied, directly addressing clinical problems, public and environmental health issues or the provision of health services.
The Partnership Centres initiative has brought teams of researchers and decision-makers together to create better health and health services. This is done by collaborative work on priority themes determined by the needs of the health and health care systems.
The major national health issues outlined below are NHMRC's health priorities for the 2024–2027 triennium.
More than 400,000 Australians are living with dementia. It is Australia's second overall leading cause of burden of disease in injury, behind coronary heart disease.1 A long-term approach to the diagnosis and treatment of dementia is essential for Australia's social and economic wellbeing.
On 15 November 2022, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) co-hosted an online workshop with the CHF to commence the review of the Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research (2016) (the Statement). See also consumer and community engagement
Multidisciplinary and multi-institution research is often the key to scientific advancement. NHMRC supports collaborative approaches to health and medical research. We provide assistance to Australian researchers in collaborative research projects, facilitate collaborative networks and international research partnerships, and researchers can explore opportunities to work with us or use our facilities.
Within the framework of the Corporate Plan, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has established a strategy to guide new and existing activities with our international partners.
Further information about the EU Implementing Arrangement
In conjunction with the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance, we developed the clinical trials competencies to be used in the development of detailed curricula and training courses by universities, Colleges and other registered training organisations*.
To improve clinical trial start-up times, we developed the Good Practice Process for Site Assessment and Authorisation Phases of Clinical Trial Research Governance (the Good Practice Process).
A guide to the legislative and governance structure to refer to when accessing datasets from publicly funded research. This page also contains a single page summary to the guide and a consumer guide.
The NHMRC and ARC Statement on Open Researcher and Contributor ID explains NHMRC's position on the ORCID researcher identifier.
The Statement on consumer and community involvement in health and medical research (The Statement), co-authored by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF), aims to guide research institutions, researchers, consumers and community members in the active involvement of consumers and community members in all aspects of health and medical research.
The Australian Government's Boosting Dementia Research Initiative invested $200 million over 5 years from 2014 to 2019 to accelerate research, enhance collaboration and promote advances in dementia research and treatment. The Boosting Dementia Research Initiative (BDRI) consisted of two main elements:
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) understands the importance of engaging with consumers and the community on its role and activities, whilst also providing leadership and guidance to the health and medical research sector on the meaningful engagement of consumers throughout all stages of research and health care.
Human health is directly and indirectly influenced by the environment and changing climatic conditions.
The Targeted Call for Research (TCR): Anal Cancer 2025 grant opportunity aims to fund research aimed at improving awareness and to provide further guidance for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of anal cancer for both consumers and healthcare professionals. Its focus may encompass, but is not limited to, the development and implementation of screening methods, innovative prevention strategies, testing technologies, and health promotion approaches to more broadly address anal cancer.