Leading valuable health research in SA
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.
The 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.
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.