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Questions and answers about the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (the Guidelines).
Questions and answers about the Consequential edits update (December 2024) update to the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (the Guidelines).
NHMRC contributes to the National Water Quality Management Strategy. The strategy aims to protect our water resources while delivering good quality water to meet the needs of communities, businesses, industry and the environment.
Questions and answers about the Microbial health-based targets update (September 2022) to the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (the Guidelines). This information can be found in Chapter 5 of the Guidelines.
Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) review research proposals involving human participants to ensure that they are ethically acceptable. There are approximately 200 HRECs in research organisations across Australia or operating independently.
The Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (the Guidelines) provide guidance to water regulators and suppliers on monitoring and managing drinking water quality.The Guidelines are available for download below, or in a digital format.
The Water Quality Advisory Committee provides expert advice on drinking water quality and public health.
Violence against women, children and gender diverse people is an Australian societal problem, not primarily an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander problem. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, children and gender diverse people are disproportionally affected by violence.
NHMRC has published updated advice on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (the Guidelines), which includes new and revised guideline values for PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS and PFBS.
Our current legislative basis is the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 (NHMRC Act). We are responsible to the Commonwealth Minister for Health.
This section includes questions and answers about the review of PFAS in drinking water.
Questions and answers about the Lead replacements in plumbing products, lead and manganese update (June 2025) to the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (the Guidelines).
The revision to the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines is underway. To make efficient use of resources, high-quality published systematic reviews are being used to update the evidence for the highest priority research questions where possible.
UpdatingEnsuring recommendations are trustworthy, reliable and up-to-date. This module aims to provide practical advice on how to best set up your guideline to accommodate future updates.
In December 2023, NHMRC implemented mandatory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Sapphire to meet Australian cyber security standards. Sapphire cannot be accessed unless MFA has been set-up.The following is a guide to setup and use MFA in Sapphire.
Birthing on Country services offer a culturally safe, holistic approach to the design of maternity services for First Nations peoples and a strategy to improve maternity care outcomes.
This diagram shows the overall complexity of Australia's health research, translation and impact (RTI) system. It details key functions and stakeholders of our national health system.
On 1 April 2025, NHMRC released an updated National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2025 (National Statement) incorporating changes to Section 4 Ethical considerations specific to participants in research and minor changes to other sections of the National Statement. This is an update to the National Statement released in 2023.
Online engagement report for the review of the 2016 Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research.
The Education and Training Working Group was established to provide advice on the education and training of researchers about good research practices.