Our Four Strategic Platforms
Four ways in.
One system.
Getting the money in. Getting the discovery out. Keeping the people who do the work. Reaching everyone the work is for. Four platforms, one for each place this system holds or breaks. Each one states where we stand, the outcome it has moved and the evidence behind it. However you enter the system, you’ll find where you fit.
01
Smarter investment
02
Health innovation
03
Workforce
04
Equity
Platform 01
Smarter investment and value realisation
Health and medical research and innovation needs strategic investment across the full pipeline, from discovery to implementation. That’s how we maximise its health, economic and social impact, and strengthen Australia’s global competitiveness.
MRFF
Philanthropy
Industry investment
Outcome
$1bn a year
MRFF investment lifting to $1 billion a year by 2030-31. We produced evidence that MRFF money was sitting unspent.
Focus areas:
Philanthropic giving
R&D tax incentive
Platform 02
Health innovation
Every Australian deserves the best possible care and health outcomes. That means turning research into treatments, products and services, backed by the data, infrastructure and technology to get them there.
AI in health
MedTech
Commercialisation
Outcome
$100m
Arthritis Australia commissioned our funding-gap analysis and carried the case to government.
Platform 03
Skilled and enabled workforce
Australia’s health and medical research workforce, including early and mid-career researchers and clinician researchers, needs the skills, support and conditions to meet today’s needs and tomorrow’s.
Career pathways
Clinician researchers
Retention
Outcome
39,690
active researchers nationwide, the workforce this platform exists to support.
Platform 04
Equity
Health equity has to be built in, not added on: through how we invest, how we innovate and how we grow the workforce, across the whole health and medical research and innovation system.
Regional & Rural
Women’s Health
Consumer Voice
Outcome
13%
of the health and medical research workforce is based outside major cities, despite 27% of Australians living there. Now written into the National HMR Strategy.
The proof behind every platform
Filter the evidence by platform
Every report, submission and infographic is tagged to the platform it belongs to, so you can go straight from a position to the evidence that supports it. Joint submissions with partner organisations, including our sister bodies in the US, Canada and Sweden, are marked as such.
01
Smarter Investment
02
Health innovation
03
Workforce
04
Equity
Want to shape one of these platforms?
Members help set the agenda across all four. Commission a strategic project or talk to our policy team.