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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.
Welcome to Tracker, the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) fortnightly newsletter with the latest information on major activities and funding opportunities.
The NHMRC 2025–2030 Action Plan for Responsible Research Assessment is a formal commitment to continuing to improve responsible research assessment. Building on existing efforts, the plan seeks to recognise a wider range of research career paths and outputs by incorporating qualitative assessment mechanisms and embracing the principles of open science. This statement is also published on the CoARA Zenodo repository.
NHMRC National Certification Scheme of Institutional Processes Related to the Ethical Review of Multi-centre Research.
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 Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 requires that research on human embryos can only be conducted under a licence issued by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Embryo Research Licensing Committee (ERLC).
Recipient of the 2024 NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for Leadership in Clinical Medicine and Science, Professor Carol Hodgson, is a specialist intensive care physiotherapist and clinical trialist. With expertise in long term outcomes after critical illness, Professor Hodgson heads the Division of Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University, researching how we can improve the quality of survival after critical illness.
Minimum Data: Targeted Call for Research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health – Addressing Violence for Safer Families and Communities
The NHMRC Corporate Plan 2025–26 presents our strategy for building a healthy Australia, across the strategic themes (purposes) of investment, translation and integrity of health and medical research. The plan also includes our strategic and health priorities, as well as our key activities planned for 2025–26 and over the next few years. The plan describes the operating context in which we work and outlines our performance criteria and targets for the next 4 years.
Questions and answers from the Ideas Grants 2025 peer reviewer webinar. Recorded 22 July 2025.
The objective of the Ideas Grant scheme is to support innovative research projects addressing a specific question(s).
Members of the Council of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), 2024–2027 triennium.
The NHMRC Complaints Policy sets out how NHMRC manages complaints about its activities, policies and decision-making.
Transparency, accountability and shared learning are key components of NHMRC’s peer review process. A new peer review assessment stage will be piloted in the 2026 Investigator Grants round designed to strengthen the robustness of the existing peer review process.
MRFF – Cardiovascular Health Mission - 2025 Cardiovascular Health Grant Opportunity
The revision to the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines (the Guidelines) is currently in the evidence review phase.