We invite you to save the date for an exciting symposium on health economics to be held on 28 February 2019, which aims to build the local capacity and impact of health economics in research and policy.
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Author: Koshala Shanmugakumar
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MRFF Funding opportunities and current projects
Please find below a list of MRFF Funding opportunities that are current and on the near horizon. WAHTN and Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA), of which WAHTN is a member, encourages collaboration and communication between researchers. Please send in your nominations from academics/researchers/clinicians and others who may be interested to lead collaborative/be involved in projects suggested by the MRFF or other funding bodies.
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Opportunities
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Rapid Applied Research Translation (RART) Impact Grants
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Position Vacant: Administrative Support Officer, Curtin University
The Administrative Support Officer provides administrative assistance to support relevant staff and activities of three centres within the school of Public Health; (i) WAHTN Clinical Trial and Data Management Centre, (ii) Australian and New Zealand Alliance for Cardiovascular Trials (ANZACT) and (iii) the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRECOI).
Administrative Support Officer at Curtin University
Job No: CURTIN444
Location: Bentley, Perth12 month fixed term, part time 0.5FTE
$63,233 – $66,509 (G04 FTE) + 9.5% Superannuation
For more information, please see Job Vacancies on the Curtin University web site.
https://applynow.net.au/jobs/ni/CURTIN444-administrative-support-officer
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GrantConnect – New Grant Opportunities and/or Forecast Opportunities
Opportunities for researcher collaborations to explore bold and innovative ideas in the health and medical research sector and/or make discoveries of great potential and global impact. Stage One supports the development of a detailed research and implementation plan that will form the basis of a Stage Two application. The research plan will cover up to five years of activity to take your idea from concept to outcome. You must demonstrate how your idea is novel and transformative, and how you will bring together multi-disciplinary research and industry partners to transform your idea into practical benefit for Australia.
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WA Child Research Fund (formerly Telethon – Perth Children’s Hospital Research Fund) – NOW OPEN!
The Department of Health in conjunction with the Channel 7 Telethon Trust is pleased to announce the seventh round of the WA Child Research Fund (formerly the Telethon-Perth Children’s Hospital Research Fund ) is now open for applications for research funding to be awarded in 2019.
The WA Child Research Fund was jointly established by the Department of Health and the Channel 7 Telethon Trust in 2012 to fund health and medical research that focuses on the health of children and adolescents in WA.
Funded research activities may be wide-ranging but must address areas of direct significance to child and adolescent health. Research may include basic, clinical, health service, or population health research.
In addition, for this year, priority areas for funding have been nominated. These include:
- WA Health led research;
- Projects that utilise and collaborate with past TPCHRF Stream 2 Strategic Research initiatives ; and
- Targeted research to address the research needs of the WA Youth Health Policy.
The Department of Health’s closing date is 1:00pm, Wednesday 20 February 2019.
Further information along with the Guidelines for Applicants and Application Forms can be found at: http://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/S_T/Telethon-Perth-Childrens-Hospital-Research-Fund
Group or individual information sessions can be arranged to assist researchers with applying. Please email ResearchDevelopment@health.wa.gov.au if you wish to arrange a session.
The Department would appreciate your assistance with promoting this opportunity to interested parties in your organisation. An Information flyer is attached and can be distributed for advertising purposes.
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Lotterywest and Healthway Community Investment Framework
At the heart of everything we do is the Lotterywest vision of ‘Building a better WA together’ and the Healthway vision of ‘A healthy Western Australia.’
Lotterywest and Healthway grants ensure that Western Australia’s health, sports and arts sectors, as well as thousands of local government authorities and not-for-profit groups, are supported in their valuable contribution to the community.
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement it is good practice to regularly review operations, including our grant making strategy. The bringing together of Healthway and Lotterywest in January 2018 and the respective grant making approach, was incorporated into this review.
As a result, a Lotterywest and Healthway Community Investment Framework has been developed. It sets out priority areas and desired outcomes to benefit Western Australia. Measuring community impact is an important component of the Framework and incorporates mechanisms to show what was achieved, and how the community benefits.
There are five priority areas for our grant making:
- Active Healthy People – Assisting our community to be more active and support initiatives which promote healthy lives.
- Protected Sustainable Ecosystems – Supporting our community to sustain and enhance our unique species and environments.
- Inclusive Thriving Community – Supporting the diversity of Western Australians to actively engage in community life.
- Connected Cultural Experiences – Bringing people together through the arts, heritage and cultural activities.
- Smart Innovative Society – Supporting science and research while helping build and retain talent in our State.
How will we get there?
The Framework transition is underway and will be implemented over the next few months.
We will continue to work alongside organisations to provide guidance through the application process and what is required.
Where can I find more information and support?
Find out more about the Community Investment Framework by talking with one of our Grants staff.
You can also visit www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/grants/community-investment-framework, call Lotterywest on 133 777 or email hello@lotterywest.wa.gov.au.
To contact Healthway, visit www.healthway.wa.gov.au, call 1800 198 450 or email healthway@healthway.wa.gov.au
Lotterywest and Healthway
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Consumer Involvement in Medical Research is growing
The Consumer and Community Involvement workshop was held on Monday the 12th November in Sydney. The workshop brought together world class leaders in this area to advise on the current state of Consumer and Community Involvement and inform the future of AHRA’s work in this area. This Australian Health Research Alliance initiative was led by WAHTN and Sydney Health Partners and followed a nationwide survey of researchers and consumers and a scan of international and Australian best practice.
Below is a news story, a video for social media and a selection of photos from the workshop.
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13th National Allied Health Conference; Call for Abstracts and Registration now open!
Authors are invited to submit an abstract summarising interesting and topical research, quality or other initiatives within any of the conference themes listed on the conference website.
Dates: 5 – 8 August 2019
Venue: Brisbane Convention and Entertainment Centre
Submissions are sought for Oral Presentations, Lightning Oral Presentations (with ePosters) and ePoster displays. All abstract submissions not accepted for oral or lightning presentation will be considered for an ePoster display.
Call for abstracts closes 11 February 2019.
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Biobank workshop
On behalf of the WAHTN, we would like to thank all who participated in the workshop on the 29 Oct 2018. The minutes and slides presented at the workshop are attached.
In order to further develop a plan for a centralised biobank in WA, we would like to invite interested members to join one of the six working groups (Governance, Ethics, Quality Assurance, Data management, Infrastructure and Funding). The strategic issues to be addressed for each group are attached. We welcome your participation in the next phase of the project even if you were not able to make it to our workshop.
With your help, each Working Group’s task is to address the issues and define actions that need to occur to create the biobank hub in the context of each specific group. The Chair for each working group will be responsible to compile key messages and summarise recommendations, tasks and actions as discrete projects (small/medium/large, short term/mid-term/long term etc). A template is attached for your reference.
Please register your interest here by Wednesday 21 November 2018. We have set a limit of 5 members in each group and this will be in a first-come first-served basis. If you are willing to be the Chair of a particular group, we ask that you include the word “Chair” after your name when registering.
Summary outcome with clear recommendations from each group should be submitted by 16 January 2019. Please note that this is a short term volunteer commitment from now until Jan 2019. Each group is free to meet and/or circulate ideas via emails from November 2018 through to Jan 2019.
Click below for the minutes and slides presented at the workshop.
Biobanking workshop attachment 1 20181029
Biobanking workshop attachment 2 20181029
Strategic Issues to address for each working group
Broadhurst Biobank Meeting 2018
Eastwood for Biobank workshop Oct 2018
ORIGINI_Biobank presentation_Final
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Strategic Issues to address for each working group:
Funding
Provide recommendations on the following:
Source of long term funding streams, ie. potential funding source, donors and financial partners.
Options and different level of running costs (i.e. example of sustainable cost structure?)
Governance
Determine and provide recommendations for an agreed governance arrangement.
Ethics
Provide information to address the following:
Standardised consent toolkit for Biobank (Broad-based consent form, consent for linking patient data)
Privacy
Ethics Defensible plan
Consumer and public engagement
Quality Assurance
Provide recommendations on the following:
Determine SOP for specific sample collection, storage and testings.
Data management
Provide specific recommendations on the following:
LIMS for biospecimen related data (meta-data and participant data) and clinical data/medical records.
How to harmonise and curate existing biobank data?
Infrastructure
Provide specific recommendations for:
Space (where?)
Equipment (storage and sample processing)
Staff
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Invitation to provide feedback on Payment of participants in research: information for researchers, HRECs and other ethics review bodies
View this newsletter in your browser<http://nhmrccommunications.cmail20.com/t/r-e-jjhkuutk-uyyhacju-r/>
The National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (Updated 2018) recognises the potential for payment of participants in research in accordance with the principles of research merit and integrity, justice, beneficence and respect. It also requires that participants be informed of any planned payments for this purpose (paragraphs 2.2.6, 2.2.9, 2.2.10, 3.1.10, 3.1.22, 3.1.29). NHMRC has developed more detailed material on this subject for researchers and reviewers in a document entitled Payment of Participants in Research: Information for Researchers, HRECs and Other Ethics Review Bodies. This document is intended to provide guidance to researchers and to reviewers of research to assist in decision-making about when payment of participants in research is ethically acceptable.
A draft version of this document is provided for your consideration and comment as part of a targeted consultation process. This process includes a set of specific questions in the form of a survey, as indicated below.
We seek your input on the structure and content of this document and, in particular, whether the information contained in it is sufficient, up-to-date and clear.
To participate in this targeted consultation process, please provide your feedback by responding to the survey here.<https://nhmrccommunications.cmail20.com/t/r-l-jjhkuutk-uyyhacju-t/>
This invitation has been sent to you at a contact address for your organisation or as an individual that we believe may be interested in providing input to this consultation.
The closing date for this targeted consultation is 5:00pm (AEST) Friday 30 November 2018.
For further information, contact ethics@nhmrc.gov.au<mailto:ethics@nhmrc.gov.au>.