❓ Mr. Jones asks about the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund. The Minister details funding allocations, programs implemented, and expected economic returns, emphasizing job creation and economic diversification.
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FUTURE HEALTH RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FUND
582. Mr H.T. JONES to the Minister for Medical Research:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's commitment to diversifying our economy, including its
significant support for the state's medical research sector. Can the
minister update the house on the future health research and innovation fund and
outline how it is supporting important innovative medical research projects and
initiatives?
582. Mr H.T. JONES to the Minister for Medical Research:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's commitment to diversifying our economy, including its
significant support for the state's medical research sector. Can the
minister update the house on the future health research and innovation fund and
outline how it is supporting important innovative medical research projects and
initiatives?
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I thank the member for the
question. It is a very important question, because making sure we have an
enhanced medical research and innovation
sector is a key component of the McGowan government's determination to
diversify our economy and create the jobs of the future. I am very
pleased to say that in 2021 a total of approximately $19 million was
distributed to 200 recipients in the form of grants, fellowships and awards to
drive research and innovation in our state. This included a special program to
address the COVID-19 pandemic called future health research and innovation
focus grants, which dispersed $1.76 million in 2021. In addition to that, $320 000
was provided for clinical research fellowship programs, which provide grants to
WA health service provider clinicians who are early to mid–career
researchers, supporting them to become involved in health and medical research. There was more than $9 million provided to
the medical research infrastructure fund and the research institute support program to support high-performing researchers at medical research institutes
to cover the indirect costs of conducting research.
I am pleased to say that I have
approved the following programs for implementation in 2021: the consumer and
community involvement in research workforce advancement program, innovation
fellowships, the innovation seed fund, the
co-funding partnerships program, the major research application support
program, the WA Near-miss A wards, the
Research Excellence Awards, innovation challenge in mental health, translation
fellowships in mental health and the sector-initiated proposals program.
We are also expecting that further program initiatives will be recommended to
me by the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund Advisory Council for
implementation in 2021–22.
This funding from the McGowan
government is committed to ensuring that we have a secure, diversified economy. Past evaluations of National Health and
Medical Research Council grants have found that if the outcomes of 25 medical trials were implemented in the wider population, every dollar in grants would
result in $50 in economic return. This is the strength and power of the future
health research and innovation fund. As I have said in this house before, it means jobs for Western Australians and
commercialisation of research undertaken in this state. The future health research
and innovation fund will not only improve health services and put patients
first, it will attract the very best and brightest to practise their craft in
this state, continue to grow jobs in our health sector and continue to
diversify the economy.
question. It is a very important question, because making sure we have an
enhanced medical research and innovation
sector is a key component of the McGowan government's determination to
diversify our economy and create the jobs of the future. I am very
pleased to say that in 2021 a total of approximately $19 million was
distributed to 200 recipients in the form of grants, fellowships and awards to
drive research and innovation in our state. This included a special program to
address the COVID-19 pandemic called future health research and innovation
focus grants, which dispersed $1.76 million in 2021. In addition to that, $320 000
was provided for clinical research fellowship programs, which provide grants to
WA health service provider clinicians who are early to mid–career
researchers, supporting them to become involved in health and medical research. There was more than $9 million provided to
the medical research infrastructure fund and the research institute support program to support high-performing researchers at medical research institutes
to cover the indirect costs of conducting research.
I am pleased to say that I have
approved the following programs for implementation in 2021: the consumer and
community involvement in research workforce advancement program, innovation
fellowships, the innovation seed fund, the
co-funding partnerships program, the major research application support
program, the WA Near-miss A wards, the
Research Excellence Awards, innovation challenge in mental health, translation
fellowships in mental health and the sector-initiated proposals program.
We are also expecting that further program initiatives will be recommended to
me by the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund Advisory Council for
implementation in 2021–22.
This funding from the McGowan
government is committed to ensuring that we have a secure, diversified economy. Past evaluations of National Health and
Medical Research Council grants have found that if the outcomes of 25 medical trials were implemented in the wider population, every dollar in grants would
result in $50 in economic return. This is the strength and power of the future
health research and innovation fund. As I have said in this house before, it means jobs for Western Australians and
commercialisation of research undertaken in this state. The future health research
and innovation fund will not only improve health services and put patients
first, it will attract the very best and brightest to practise their craft in
this state, continue to grow jobs in our health sector and continue to
diversify the economy.
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