Title: The public benefits of health and medical research
1The public benefits of health and medical research
Professor Warwick Anderson Chief Executive Officer
2NHMRC 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).
3 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
4NHMRC 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
5Grants 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
6NHMRC Project GrantsMore could be funded
Not recommended for funding (score lt4)
Fundable, but not funded (score 4)
Funded
7NHMRC research expenditure in 2007
Where the Funding GoesAdministering Institution
8NHMRC Funding to all Universities (2000 and 2007)
9NHMRC Funding of top 10 Institutions - 2008
Top 10 66.9 of total funds
10Percentage of NHMRC research expenditure to each
state and territory 2000 2007
Where the Funding Goes
11 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
12National Health Priority Areas (NHPA)
13Aboriginal 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
14NHMRC Funding for Indigenous Health Funding
(2000-2007)
15Patents in NHMRC project grant applications (2000
2006)
Intellectual Property
16A 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.
17Intellectual 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
18Commercialisation
Reported commercial actions arising out of the
research includes 29 start up companies, 11
reports of sales of products, and 3 IPO listings.
19Leverage 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
20Leverage of National and International funds
21New 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
222005 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.
231996 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.
242006 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.
25Commercial 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
26Water 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)
27Venous 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)
28NHMRC Working to build a healthy
Australia www.nhmrc.gov.au
29CSL - 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)