ACT Gains $10.8 Million from Biggest Ever Grant Announcement for Health and Medical Research
The Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, announced the single largest investment in grants for health and medical research in Australia on 17 October 2011.
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17 October 2011
The Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, today announced the single largest investment in grants for health and medical research in Australia.
The Gillard Labor Government is providing $673.7 million for 1,140 grants to support researchers, research projects and research institutions Australia-wide.
ACT researchers will benefit from $10.8 million of this funding, through 20 National Health and Medical Research Council grants.
This investment will ensure that researchers in ACT continue to expand the frontiers of health and medical research.
“Health and medical research is an area where Australia shines. We are renowned internationally for our outstanding contribution to health, including the development of a rotavirus vaccine to protect children against this gastro killer, the first humid cribs for premature babies and more recently, the cervical cancer vaccine.
“The grants announced today will ensure that young researchers have a solid foundation for their career, experienced researchers can run innovative research projects and clinicians can integrate their clinical skills into research practice.
“Thanks to these grants, Australia’s up and coming scientists will have the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of the outstanding researchers who have gone before them.”
Researchers in the ACT cover a diversity of areas, including the detection of depression and anxiety in the community and a comprehensive study into Indigenous child health.
- Mr Philip Batterham of the Australian National University will receive $294,892 to determine new methods for screening depression, anxiety and suicidality. As a large proportion of people with mental illness do not seek help, this study will develop new, individually tailored ways to screen for mental health conditions. It will also test the implementation of these screening tools into a tailored service combining online and primary care services.
- Professor Emily Banks, also of the Australian National University will receive $1,727,460 to investigate health trajectories in urban Aboriginal children through the SEARCH Study. SEARCH is Australia’s largest prospective longitudinal study of urban Aboriginal children and will provide, for the first time, comprehensive information on the causes of health and illness in a large group of urban Aboriginal children. SEARCH is a partnership with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. SEARCH will identify the factors that can be changed in early childhood to prevent later disease, to reduce the gap in Aboriginal health.
For more information, please contact the Minister's Office on (02) 6277 7280
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