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NHMRC funds priority-driven research in response to identified health priority areas to create a healthier future for Australians through relevant and targeted research initiatives which has included eight large scale one-off priority-driven grant opportunities. Though each grant opportunity was unique in design, each had a common focus of establishing a national collaborative research network.NHMRC commissioned ORIMA Research to evaluate the effectiveness of these large-scale grant opportunities in fostering national collaboration in order to provide an evidence base to identify the best practice approaches to designing future priority-driven grant opportunities to achieve national research collaboration. The findings of the evaluation are published in this report.
Welcome to Tracker, NHMRC’s fortnightly newsletter with the latest information on major activities and funding opportunities.
In 2021, an average of 23 people died of stroke each day in Australia, making stroke one of the leading causes of death.1 Acute post-stroke symptoms contribute to this mortality, causing loss of life and independence. A team of NHMRC-funded researchers designed cost-effective and easy to implement protocols for the monitoring and treatment of patients in the 72 hours following a stroke. Implementation of these protocols has led to improvements in survival and health outcomes. They have been adopted into hospitals throughout Australia and in at least 18 countries across the world.
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.
The Guidelines for Guidelines Handbook is designed to help guideline developers produce high quality guidelines that meet the NHMRC Standards for Guidelines
The Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) scheme provides support for teams of researchers to pursue collaborative research and develop capacity in basic science research, clinical research, health services research and public health research.
Evidence to decision and making recommendationsEnsuring guideline development groups follow a systematic and transparent approach to making recommendations from a body of evidence.
For approved applications for funding commencing between 2017 to 2025, the following salary support packages were used in the calculations of awarded budgets. For funding commencing in 2026 see Personnel and Salary Support Packages.
2025 Personnel and Salary Support Package rates to be applied to grants in 2025 and used in applications for funding commencing in 2026.
Online engagement report for the review of the 2016 Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research.
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.
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 United Nations (UN) International Day of Persons with Disabilities promotes community awareness, understanding and acceptance of the estimated 1.3 billion people with disability worldwide and to celebrate their achievements.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) e-ASIA 2024 Joint Research Program will support Australian participation and collaboration in leading international collaborative research through the e-ASIA Joint Research Program (e-ASIA JRP). The e-ASIA JRP formulates and supports international joint research projects in the East Asia region on a multilateral basis and promotes the interaction of researchers through scientific workshops.
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.