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Help us to tell the health transition unit, and the new Health New Zealand and Māori Health Authority Boards, what embedding health research in the reformed health system will ideally look like, and the impact on health outcomes that could result. Please complete our five minute questionnaire here: surveymonkey.com/r/NZHR2021. The survey’s open to all health…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! September 2021
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Read MoreNew Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) is looking for new people to join its Board.
New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) is looking for new people to join its Board. We are committed to bringing about best possible health for all New Zealanders, and we’re on a mission to increase investment in health research as an essential and embedded component of all parts of New Zealand’s health system, responsive to…
Read MoreThe case for embedding health research as an essential component of the reformed health and disability system
Health research is the single most important way in which we improve our healthcare – by identifying the best means to prevent, diagnose and treat conditions. So, we need to bolster delivery of innovative research across all phases, all conditions and right across New Zealand, as we work to build a better, more effective, health…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! July 2021
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Read MoreNZHR Submission on the PHARMAC Review
New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) was established in November 2015 to bring about increased investment in health research from government, industry and philanthropy. We believe that health research saves and improve peoples’ lives, and directly and indirectly contributes to New Zealand’s economic prosperity. We are therefore committed to ensuring that health research is fully…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! June 2021
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Read MoreMedia Release: Budget 2021: Health Research Funding Fails the Team of Five Million
20th May 2021 “New Zealanders have been badly let down by Budget 2021’s diminishing support for health research” New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) Chief Executive Chris Higgins said today. “$117.5m has been allocated for health research, compared to estimated expenditure of $130.6m for This means that direct government investment in health research has fallen…
Read MoreMedia Release: Include Health Research in Health Reforms: Productivity Commission
21st April 2021 In what is described as a big win for New Zealand health research the Productivity Commission’s latest report recommends that “the Government should use its intended major health system reform to improve the mandate, funding and incentives for DHBs to participate in the healthtech innovation ecosystem”. New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR)…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! April 2021
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