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Title: The public benefits of health and medical research


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The public benefits of health and medical research
Professor Warwick Anderson Chief Executive Officer
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NHMRC Act amended 2006
  • Establishes NHMRC as an independent statutory
    agency within the health portfolio
  • To raise the standard of individual and public
    health throughout Australia
  • To foster the development of consistent health
    standards between the various States and
    Territories
  • To foster medical research and training and
    public health research and training throughout
    Australia and
  • To foster consideration of ethical issues
    relating to health
  • NHMRCs Strategic Plan - Parliament
  • Must contain the CEOs assessment of the major
    national health issues that are likely to arise
    during the period (of the Strategic Plan).

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Highways to Health
PROSPERITY
IMPROVED INDIVDUAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
Improving health globally and regionally
Prevention
Improved delivery of primary, hospital health care
New treatments, therapies
Innovative industry development
KNOWLEDGE
RESEARCH
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NHMRC Funding Schemes - Summary
  • Support for health and medical Research
  • Program Grants
  • Project Grants
  • Development awards
  • Building Australia's Research capacity
  • People
  • Fellowships
  • Career Development Awards
  • Training Fellowships
  • Scholarships
  • Fields
  • Capacity Building Grants in Population health
    Research
  • Capacity Building Grants in Health services
    Research
  • Centres of Clinical Research Excellence
  • Research Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Grants for Independent Medical
    Research Institutes
  • Enabling Grants
  • Equipment Grants

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Grants for support of research
Grant Number Program
Grants 103,319,442 65 Project Grants 281,747,558
1719 Development Grants 3,084,852 36 Priority
Strategic Grants 7,471,287 25
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NHMRC Project GrantsMore could be funded
Not recommended for funding (score lt4)
Fundable, but not funded (score 4)
Funded
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NHMRC research expenditure in 2007
Where the Funding GoesAdministering Institution
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NHMRC Funding to all Universities (2000 and 2007)
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NHMRC Funding of top 10 Institutions - 2008
Top 10 66.9 of total funds
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Percentage of NHMRC research expenditure to each
state and territory 2000 2007
Where the Funding Goes
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Highways to Health
PROSPERITY
IMPROVED INDIVDUAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
Improving health globally and regionally
Prevention
Improved delivery of primary, hospital health care
New treatments, therapies
Innovative industry development
KNOWLEDGE
RESEARCH
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National Health Priority Areas (NHPA)
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Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Research
  • NHMRC has a target of allocating 5 of the
    Medical Research Endowment Account (MREA) to
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander related
    research

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NHMRC Funding for Indigenous Health Funding
(2000-2007)

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Patents in NHMRC project grant applications (2000
2006)
Intellectual Property
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A Study of NHMRC final reports
The following slides are an analysis of data
received on final reports from NHMRC funded
grants. This includes
  • 1208 final reports from grants that ended in
    2003, 2004 and 2005
  • With a total value of 460.1 million of NHMRC
    funding between 1998 and 2005.
  • Scholarships, equipment grants and block funding
    are excluded.

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Intellectual Property
  • Has this research award resulted in the
    development of Intellectual Property?
  • Yes 227 19
  • No 953 79
  • Not Answered 28 2
  • Total 1208 100

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Commercialisation
Reported commercial actions arising out of the
research includes 29 start up companies, 11
reports of sales of products, and 3 IPO listings.
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Leverage of National and International funds
  • Total investment of 460.1 million for 1208 NHMRC
    grants resulted in leveraged funds of 254.4
    million from
  • National sources 124.1 million
  • International sources 130.3 million

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Leverage of National and International funds
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New policy and practice focusedresearch NHMRC
Partnerships
  • NHMRC Partnerships will focus on informing both
    policy and practice in
  • health. This represents a new focus for the NHMRC
    in 2008.
  • The initiative will
  • help create partnerships between policy makers,
    managers, clinicians and researchers
  • provide funding and support to create new
    opportunities for researchers and
  • policy makers to work together
  • The aims are to
  • Lead to more effective connections between policy
    makers and researchers
  • Improve the availability and quality of research
    evidence to inform policy
  • Process
  • NHMRC Partnerships will initially fund two types
    of awards
  • NHMRC Partnership Projects (ARC Linkage -like)
  • NHMRC Partnerships Centres for Research
    excellence

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2005 Nobel Prize WinnersProfessor Barry
MarshallProfessor Robin Warren
  • University of Western Australia
  • Marshall and Warren shared the Nobel Prize in
    Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the
    Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and
    peptic ulcer disease.

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1996 Nobel Prize WinnerProfessor Peter Doherty
  • John Curtin School of Medical Research
  • Professor Doherty received the Nobel Prize for
    his milestone research into cellular immunology
    and discovery of how the body's immune system
    recognises virus-infected cells.

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2006 Australian of the YearProfessor Ian Frazer
  • University of Queensland
  • Honoured as Australian of the Year for his
    groundbreaking work on the development of a
    vaccine for cervical cancer.His work will
    prevent a virus that leads to half a million
    cases of cancer in women around the world each
    year, and takes hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Commercial outcomes
  • NHMRC support
  • Development Grants (under review)
  • Support Enhancement Options
  • Australian success stories
  • Cochlear - Total revenue for the year 2006
    increased 30 to a record 452.3 million
  • ResMed - Delivered a record financial performance
    achieving 607 million in revenues, an increase
    of 43 from 2005
  • CSL (now with Gardasil!) - Consolidated Group
    profit for 2007 539.3 million

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Water Fluoridation
  • Australias main public health strategy in
    reducing the prevalence of dental caries.
  • NHMRC has funded evaluative research since the
    1980s (validating the safety, optimal levels and
    cost-effectiveness of water fluoridation)
  • For each 1 invested in water fluoridation,
    estimated savings in dental treatment range from
    12.60 to 80.00, with the greatest benefit to
    the most disadvantaged.
  • NHMRC supported research has
  • informed public debate,
  • provided an objective view on costs and benefits,
    and
  • provided reports that enable politically
    challenging policy decisions.

Source Access Economics, draft Report Returns
to NHMRC funded RD (2008)
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Venous Thromboembolism
  • It is estimated that, in 2008, there will be
  • 14,700 hospitalisations
  • 5,285 deaths
  • VET costs 116,970 per case due to lost
    productivity from premature death.
  • Health system expenditure is 10,007 per case.
  • NICS developed and implemented the Stop the Clot
    campaign.
  • Savings from the NHMRC component alone would be 5
    lives per annum and 1.6 million in savings to
    the health system.

Source Access Economics, draft Report Returns
to NHMRC funded RD (2008)
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NHMRC Working to build a healthy
Australia www.nhmrc.gov.au
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CSL - Gardasil
  • A vaccine against certain types of human
    papillomavirus.
  • Royalties attribution yields a benefit of 63
    million per annum to Australia.
  • Potential benefits include the saving of 225,000
    lives each year worldwide.
  • CSL Consolidated Group profit for 2007 539.3
    million

Source Access Economics, draft Report Returns
to NHMRC funded RD (2008)
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