National Health and Medical Research Council

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is Australia's peak funding body for medical research, with a budget of roughly $900 million a year.[2][3] The Council was established to develop and maintain health standards and is responsible for implementing the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992.[4]

National Health and Medical Research Council
Agency overview
Formed1936
JurisdictionCommonwealth of Australia
HeadquartersLevel 1, 16 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra
MottoBuilding a healthy Australia
Employees218[1]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
Parent departmentDepartment of Health
Websitewww.nhmrc.gov.au

NHMRC is a material agency and is incorporated under the federal Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997. It was a part of the Department of Health and Ageing portfolio until mid-2007 when it became a self-governing statutory authority.

Along with the Australian Research Council (ARC), NHMRC is one of the Australian government's two main agencies for allocating competitively research funding to academics and researchers at Australian universities.

Medical research grading

NHMRC research grading is commonly used to assess medical publications. These include, from the most reliable to least: systematic review, randomized control trial, cohort study, case control, case series.[5]

History

In 2010 the NHMRC's new online system for grant applications was the subject of criticism after a series of technical problems.[6]

The community organisation Organisation Intersex International Australia criticised the NHMRC for funding research programs that pathologise intersex variations as disorders.[7][8]

Funding recipients

CJ Martin Fellowship
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Awards

Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research

The award also includes a grant of $50,000. The award was first made in the year 2000.[9]

Recipients include:

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  • Doug Hilton 2000[9]
  • David Celermajer 2002
  • Josephine Forbes 2010 [9]
  • Justine Gatt 2014, mental health – resilience defining characteristics in people who are able to positively adapt to adversity[10]
  • Philip Batterham 2015, development of a mental health online support tool[11]
  • Joseph Powell 2016, investigations of DNA sequence variation contribution to human disease using statistical genomics[12]
  • Julian Elliott 2017, development and evaluation of new data systems, citizen science research, and machine learning, into evidence-based HIV related health care.[13]
  • Levon Khachigian
  • Anton Peleg[9]

See also

References
  1. APS Statistical Bulletin 2015-2016 (Report). Australian Public Service Commission. September 2016.
  2. Outcomes of funding rounds Archived 7 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine: "The 2015 NHMRC Grant Application Round has resulted in the commitment of more than $896 million to fund health and medical research including 1030 new grants to universities, medical research institutions and hospitals across Australia."
  3. NHMRC research funding datasets 1990–2010
  4. National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992
  5. "NHMRC additional levels of evidence and grades for recommendations for developers of guidelines" (PDF). Australian Government. National Health and Medical Research Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  6. Healy, Guy (17 March 2010). "Online grants system proves a nightmare". The Australian. Retrieved 22 March 2010.
  7. Carpenter, Morgan; Organisation Intersex International Australia (6 February 2015). Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Rights Snapshot Report. Sydney: Organisation Intersex International Australia.
  8. Carpenter, Morgan; Organisation Intersex International Australia (30 April 2014), Submission on the Review of Part B of the Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Clinical Practice and Research, 2007, Sydney: Organisation Intersex International Australia
  9. "Associate Professor Julian Elliott recognised for outstanding achievement". National Health and Medical Research Council. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  10. "Research Excellence Awards 2014". National Health and Medical Research Council. 24 January 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  11. "Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research 2015". National Health and Medical Research Council. 24 January 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  12. "Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research 2016". National Health and Medical Research Council. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  13. "Outstanding researcher recognised with Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research". National Health and Medical Research Council. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2019.



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