On 5th June 2025, Research Australia and Digital Health CRC co-hosted a virtual workshop with key stakeholders from across the health and medical data, research and innovation ecosystem, including government, academia, and industry.
The workshop explored how a unified national coordinated data capabilities could strengthen data-driven healthcare, accelerate research and innovation, and improve health outcomes and economic performance. It focused on how such coordination could be structured, where it might be best situated, and how it could align with current reforms, particularly the National Health and Medical Research Strategy (National Strategy), the Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD), and the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap (NRIR).
The event brought together 25 representatives from 18 organisations, including government representatives from the National Strategy, SERD, and NRIR secretariats and policy directors.
The full communique from the workshop can be found here.