To ensure long-term resilience, we must protect and re-shape Australia’s world-class health and medical research workforce.
As Australia marks 90 years of nationally coordinated, high quality health and medical research funding, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is celebrating nine significant decades of discovery through to impact. Here, NHMRC reflects on how research has changed over time, and why research needs to continue to evolve in order to face current and emerging challenges impacting all Australians.
A new nationally endorsed template aims to simplify and streamline Participant Information and Consent Forms for researchers and participants.
The Framework for Consumer and Community Involvement in Health Research aims to turn good intentions into consistent, practical action — uniting researchers, services and communities in genuine collaboration.
Fellowship schemes by Australian funding agencies invite researchers to disclose personal career disruptions to promote equity. For applicants living with illness or disability, this well-meaning policy can expose private medical details to non-medically trained reviewers and create new risks of bias. A proposed reform could bring medical privacy and consistency back into the process.
Australia’s health system is under increasing pressure to meet the needs of an ageing and evolving population. But are we planning for the right kind of care?
Most research participants want to know the results of the studies they contribute to, yet many never hear back. A new global review highlights the ethical, practical, and trust-building benefits of results sharing, as well as the barriers that keep it from happening.
Health services research must become a frontline service in Australian health care, to provide prompt solutions to pressing system-wide problems. Chief among these is inadequate access to care, where Australia ranks ninth out of ten countries in a recent report.
Australia is poised to be a world leader in the field of living evidence synthesis, prompting calls for a national research agenda.
