{"id":5137,"date":"2019-05-13T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T01:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wahtn.org\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2019-05-13T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T01:20:56","slug":"52-million-funding-investment-by-wa-state-government-in-long-term-health-and-medical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/2019\/05\/13\/52-million-funding-investment-by-wa-state-government-in-long-term-health-and-medical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$52 million funding investment by WA State Government in long term Health and Medical Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McGowan government has announced the annual interest from the $1.3 billion WA Future Fund will be redirected to address the gap in current health and medical research investment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The additional $52 million will ramp up health research investment over a three-year period (from 2020-2021 and 2022-2023). Which will increase the total research investment to $126.6 million over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funding boot is aimed at retaining our innovation and commercialisation opportunities stemming from local research discoveries and innovative practices. Allocations from the fund will be made through a robust governance structure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourstatebudget.wa.gov.au\/2019-20\/health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019-2020 State Budget health and medical investment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au\/Pages\/McGowan\/2019\/05\/Medical-research-and-innovation-receives-major-funding-boost.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full media statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McGowan government has announced the annual interest from the $1.3 billion WA Future Fund will be redirected to address the gap in current health and medical research investment. &nbsp; The additional $52 million will ramp up health research investment over a three-year period (from 2020-2021 and 2022-2023). Which will increase the total research investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27,64,113,114,115,116],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-27","tag-funding","tag-future-health-research-innovation-fund","tag-wa-future-fund","tag-wa-state-budget","tag-wa-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}