- 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.”
