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October 15 2009

UniSA leads valuable health research partnerships in SA

Prof Robyn McDermott has won a $1.7m grant to work on an Indigenous health project.Building on its strong reputation for working in partnership with industry, business, and community and government agencies, UniSA has been successful in securing more than $2 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to support two major collaborative health research projects.
 
The new grants scheme, NHMRC Partnership Projects, was designed to forge stronger links between researchers, policy makers and health organisations to improve both the nature and application of research and the uptake of research results in the wider community.
 
Partner support for the research is expected to total more than $4 million in cash and in kind funding.
 
UniSA’s successful projects include Australia’s single highest funded Partnership Project grant in this round of funding – just over $1.7 million to research models for improved delivery of care to Indigenous clients with chronic health problems. The project will be led by Professor Robyn McDermott.
 
Prof Mark Daniel has won a NHMRC grantThe second project led by Professor Mark Daniel, UniSA Research Chair in Social Epidemiology, will draw on behavioural and psychosocial data to examine the relationships between where people live and the incidence of metabolic syndrome.
 
University of South Australia Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Høj says the successful grants are a strong endorsement of UniSA’s research teams and the University’s record in managing highly successful research partnerships.
 
“This is an excellent vote of confidence not only in the quality of health research being undertaken at UniSA but also in our researchers’ capacity to define and lead projects that will make a real difference in the community and lead to health policy and health care innovation,” Professor Høj said.
 
“That drive to find solutions, better ways of doing things, and to improve people’s lives is central to UniSA’s research culture.”
 
On a national and state level UniSA has been highly successful in the new funding category, securing the fourth highest amount of funding in Australia and the only grants awarded from the scheme in South Australia.
 



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