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The Minister for Health, Greg Hunt has announced the detail around the allocation of the funding into clinical trials in Australia as handed down at the 2017 Budget last Tuesday.

Key elements of the MRFF funding boost for clinical trials:

• Supporting research in public health and rare diseases: $13 million will be used to support research into a number of public health areas which contribute to the highest burden of disease, including the application of precision medicine.
• More fellowships for clinical researchers: The Turnbull Government will invest $8 million to ensure the supply of high-quality next-generation research talent through boosting the scale of existing NHMC fellowship schemes. Fellowships awards will be announced from early 2017-18.
• Increasing collaboration in research: the Turnbull Government is also providing $7 million over four years to help redesign State and Territory clinical trial operating systems.
• Supporting clinical trials and registries – clinical trials networks: the investment is $5 million over four years and includes networks of investigators and service providers that work together to identify and evaluate new approaches to optimise healthcare effectiveness.
• Adolescents and young adolescents with cancer: The funding of $5 million for new targeted clinical trial activity for adolescents and young adolescents with cancer, to be administered by CanTeen that was announced as part of the Federal Budget.

As part of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), the Government is continuing to deliver on its promise to establish a $20 billion capital in the fund, with this target to be achieved in 2020-21.

Read the full media release by Research Australia HERE.

The 6^th Annual NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation, will be co-hosted this year by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Lowitja Institute.

The Symposium will present an outstanding opportunity to focus on action needed to improve the health and wellbeing of Australia’s First Peoples through effective translation of health, wellbeing and medical research into policy and practice.

It will also be a forum to share knowledge of what successful research looks like at community level and what the key elements of success are.

The Symposium is for anyone with an interest in improving the health and wellbeing of Australia’s First Peoples through the better use of high quality research in practice and policy.

It will include researchers, policy makers, health care practitioners, community health workers, community members and consumers.

Symposium participants will have the opportunity to network with, learn from, and establish collaborations with others committed to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

EVENT DETAILS

Type: Symposium

Theme: “The Butterfly Effect: Translating Knowledge into Action for Positive Change ”

Date and time: 14-15 November, 2017 (9am-5pm)

Location: Brisbane, Australia

**  Call for abstracts has now been extended to Friday 23 June) **

Registrations for the Symposium will open in June 2017.

 

Choose from: Workshops (90 minutes); oral presentation (15 minutes); or poster

Abstracts are to be submitted online by Friday 23 June on “The Butterfly Effect: Translating Knowledge into Action for Positive Change “.

The submission of abstracts that translate the knowledge authors have gained from their community groups, workplace, research and policy environment into action for positive change are encouraged. In particular:

• demonstrate the embedding of the principles of research knowledge translation throughout the research
• celebrate accomplishments
• facilitate nurturing and support of early career researchers and community members
• facilitate collaboration between experienced and less experienced researchers
• engage Centres of Research Excellence
• involve allied health, clinical, and community health personnel; and
• engage policy makers.

Themes and life course

Authors are encouraged to consider their abstracts under the following broad themes in conjunction with the life course stages in which projects may reside.

The five stages of the life course are maternal and child health, children, youth, adults and older adults and are aligned with the priorities described in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023. The themes are:

• Capacity building
• Social and cultural determinants of health
• Data sovereignty: Capturing, storing and managing knowledge
• Indigenous knowledges and community engagement: receiving and interpreting knowledge
• Translation and impact: integrating knowledge to shape outcomes

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words for oral and poster abstracts and no longer than 500 words for workshop abstracts.

Registrations

Registrations for the Symposium will open in June 2017. All accepted authors must register for the Symposium.

Further information, including details regarding the Symposium program, will be provided in the coming months.

For more information please click here.

Professor John Challis, Executive Director, WA Health Translation Network (WAHTN) was pleased to attend the FutureNOW Series Event, “Joining the Global Innovation Chain” by the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and ECU.

Guests heard from Professor Joseph Klafter, President, Tel Aviv University on how Tel Aviv University educates its researchers and students to think, network and succeed globally. For more information on this event, please click HERE

Murdoch University’s Health Policy and Governce unit examines national and international health policy from a multidisciplinary perspective (e.g. political science, management, and economics), and looks at how the health sector is governed in Australia and other countries.  By examining current and emerging issues, it will identify the best practices in health policy as well as potential reforms.

Industry professionals can enrol in the unit as a Not-For-Award student.

The unit runs over 4 days: 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th May 2017

Please open the flyer to see unit’s details, including fee, speakers and topics.
Please click here to read the flyer

Call for Applications: Research Translation Projects 2017 (Round 11)

The Department of Health invites Expressions of Interest for the eleventh round of the Research Translation Projects (RTP) funding program.

The RTP program seeks to support high-quality research projects that have the potential to be translated into policy and/or practice in WA Health, with the aim of investigating improved efficiencies that can be delivered whilst maintaining and/or improving patient outcomes.

The Department of Health’s closing date for Expressions of Interest is 1:00pm, Monday 8 May 2017.  

For this round a two-stage application process will apply.

Expressions of Interest that are short-listed in the first-stage review will be invited to submit a Full Application for the second-stage review.

The Guidelines for Applicants and Expression of Interest form can be downloaded from the Research Development website at:

http://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/S_T/SHRAC-Research-Translation-Projects

An Information flyer is attached and can be distributed for promotion purposes please email CMOResearchDevelopment@health.wa.gov.au if you wish to organise a session.

For assistance please contact the Research Development Unit via email to CMOResearchDevelopment@health.wa.gov.au or phone (08) 9222 4415.

More information about the range of funding programs administered by the Department of Health through the Research Development Unit, including past grant recipients can be found at: http://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Health-for/Researchers-and-educators/Research-development

Please see attached flyer for more information

RTP R11 Announcement