THE HON MARK BUTLER MP
Minister for Mental Health and Ageing
MEDIA RELEASE
19 October 2010
HEARTS, MINDS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN – NEW CENTRES OF
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler today announced 11 further
Centres of Research Excellence, following on from initial announcements in July and
August 2010.
The Centres of Research Excellence scheme, funded through the National Health
and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), provides support for teams of researchers
to pursue collaborative research.
The Centres will receive $27 million over 5 years.
“Medical research and ensuring that this research is incorporated into health care is
one of the keys to improving the health of all Australians” Mr Butler said.
“These new centres will use funding of up to $2.5 million to bring together prominent
researchers in a variety of fields to tackle a range of health issues, including
cardiology, neuroscience and nursing care.
“Hospital care can cause inadvertent problems for the whole body, when patients
develop complications related to poor pain and anxiety management, as well as skin
problems.
“One of the centres, the University of Queensland’s Centre of Research Excellence
in Nursing Interventions for Hospitalised Patients, will trial different treatments, and
examine existing research, to find the best ways to prevent these problems arising in
Australia’s ageing hospital population.”
Eleven Centres of Research Excellence will benefit from the funding, with research
in each area to begin immediately.
A list of the NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence is attached.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Samantha Regione, Minister’s Office, 0418 112 688
Carolyn Norrie, NHMRC, 0422 008 512 or 02 6217 9342
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NHMRC Centres for Research Excellence 2010
Title
Administering Institution
Amount
Centre for Training in Translational Cardiology
Baker IDI
$2,525,300
Centre for Research Excellence in Critical Infectious
Diseases
University of Sydney
$2,499,688
NHMRC Asia Pacific Centre for Innovative Dengue
Prevention
University of Queensland
$2,497,175
Centre for Translational Neuroscience: A modular
platform for translating discovery into health
outcomes
University of Melbourne
$2,511,875
Centre for Research Excellence in Sun and Health
Queensland University of Technology
$2,379,750
Reducing the health, social and economic burden of
injecting drug use in Australia
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical
Research and Public Health
$2,485,060
Population health at the clinical interface: pregnancy
and Childbirth
University of Sydney
$2,456,365
Improving quality and safety of health care delivery
at the interface between the primary and acute care
sectors
Griffith University
$2,499,380
Nursing Interventions for Hospitalised Patients
University of Queensland
$2,409,875
Centre for Informing Policy in Health with Evidence
from Research (CIPHER)
University of Western Sydney
$2,496,375
Centre of Research Excellence in Women's Health in
the 21st Century
University of Queensland
$2,190,625
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