- WA's Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI)
Fund hosts open day in State's Mid-West
- New programs and funding announced today
- $220 million available for health and medical
research and innovation over next four years
Western Australia's
Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund
is headed
to the country with health and medical researchers and innovators gathering for
an open day at Geraldton Universities Centre.
The FHRI Fund is today announcing $10.5 million
for innovative health and medical research and innovation projects - including more
than $5 million across three WA universities - Curtin, Edith Cowan and UWA - to
manage 22 Clinician Researcher Training scholarships for WA clinicians.
Four of these are WA Country Health Service
(WACHS) clinicians who will be working specifically on rural and/or remote
research projects.
These include developing a remote physiotherapy model of care
for Aboriginal Women's Pelvic Health and Babble Boot Camp - an early intervention program aimed at improving speech
and language in at-risk infants via telehealth.
Cancer survivors in the Wheatbelt will benefit from research work
to develop and implement a nurse practitioner-led survivorship program in the region,
while another successful fund project will investigate alternative virtual ways to assess
and diagnose patients in rural and remote WA via the WACHS Command Centre.
In addition, $2.3 million has been awarded to
support 23 early and mid-career researchers who narrowly missed out on a highly
competitive National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas grant.
This funding will allow them to improve future NHMRC applications.
Funding has also been awarded to
recipients through the Co-Funding Partnerships Program, the DISCOV3R program
and the FHRI Fund Capability Building Program: National Reconstruction Fund (NRF)
- Medical Manufacturing.
Today Medical
Research Minister Stephen Dawson will also announce the new programs as part of
the July funding cycle.
These include support for CohortStudies, an Innovation Challenge to support innovative
solutions, the FHRI Fund and Brightspark Foundation's Co-Funded Partnership B
Program, which will provide fellowships for WA's best early career child health
researchers.
To date the FHRI Fund has awarded almost $82 million
in grants to 429 recipients, with some $220 million available over the next
four years.
For more information on the recent funding
recipients along with the next round of new funding opportunities, visit the FHRI Fund page.
Comments
attributed to Medical Research Minister Stephen Dawson:
"It's great to be showcasing our best health and medical
researchers and innovators in our State's Mid-West today.
"The Cook Government is committed to delivering reforms that encourage our
health and medical researchers and innovators to achieve world-class research
and innovation.
"WA is already home to some of world's leading researchers
and innovators and over the next decade we will see some amazing advances in home-grown
research and innovation.
"Congratulations to the funding recipients
announced today - the champions of health and medical research and innovation for
the future."
