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At the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) we are proud to be Australia’s leading expert body in health and medical research. For nearly a century, we’ve been driving innovation, integrity and impact – funding exceptional research, setting national health standards and providing trusted, evidence based health advice to improve the health and lives of all Australians.

Forecast opportunity - 2026 NHMRC-European Partnership for Brain Health grant opportunity

This report Promoting social and emotional development and wellbeing of infants in pregnancy and the first year of life: a NHMRC report on the evidence summarises findings of the evaluation of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions delivered in pregnancy or the first postpartum year.

Dr Riley Batchelor is a fellow in interventional cardiology at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The Alfred Hospital and is a PhD candidate at Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. An early career clinician researcher, Dr Batchelor's research explores the management of cardiac emergencies, including acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, and extends to extracorporeal life support and advanced heart failure.

Microsurgery describes surgical procedures performed using a microscope and specialised tools. It is often used to connect small structures in the body such as blood vessels, nerves and lymphatics. NHMRC-funded researchers in (what is now) the O’Brien Department of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research have been at the forefront of developing microsurgery since its emergence during the mid-20th century. Their pioneering precision instruments, microsurgical techniques and research models revolutionised surgical practice, allowing countless patients worldwide to receive a standard of surgical reconstruction for their injuries that was previously impossible.

Professor Helen Marshall AM is the Professor of Vaccinology and an NHMRC Leadership Fellow at The University of Adelaide, and the Clinical Research Director at the Women’s and Children’s Health Network in South Australia. Professor Marshall’s research area focuses on preventing life threatening infections in children and young people through improving immunisation effectiveness, safety and impact. Her main focus throughout her extensive research career has been the prevention of meningococcal disease, leading national clinical trials to assess the safety and effectiveness of a meningococcal B vaccine.

MRFF – Emerging Priorities and Consumer-Driven Research Initiative 2025 Childhood Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity 

NHMRC will provide $72 million for Centres of Research Excellence that will lead to better health outcomes in Australia and our region.

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.

The growth of the international scientific enterprise has led to the creation of enormous amounts of new health and medical knowledge that has positively transformed health care. However, during the mid-1900s, managing and gaining access to this knowledge was becoming increasingly difficult for both researchers and clinicians. To address this challenge, NHMRC was instrumental in introducing to Australia a system called MEDLARS. This system – now known as MEDLINE/PubMed – has become essential for biomedical and health researchers and clinicians worldwide.

Professor Prudence Francis's dedication to young women with breast cancer is transforming treatment and saving lives. Her global trials of hormone therapy are a game changer in the fight against high-risk breast cancer.

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 Dietary Guidelines Sustainability Working Group (the Working Group) advises on the strength and quality of evidence about sustainability and diet (accessible, affordable and equitable diets with low environmental impacts). The Working Group reports to the Dietary Guidelines Expert Committee (the Expert Committee) as part of the revision of the Australian Dietary Guidelines (the Guidelines).

MRFF – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative – 2025 Targeted Translation Research Accelerator – Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Risk Prediction and Data Solutions Grant Opportunity

MRFF – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative – 2025 Targeted Translation Research Accelerator – Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Models of Care Grant Opportunity

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

Procedures and requirements for meeting the NHMRC standards for guidelines

This section provides better practice prompts for considering sex, gender, variations of sex characteristics and sexual orientation in different types of research and by research life-cycle stage.

Forecast opportunity - 2026 NHMRC e-ASIA Joint Research Program