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NHMRC
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research. It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, and NHMRC-funded research is globally recognised for its high quality. Around 45% of all Australian medical research from 200812 was funded by the federal government, through the NHMRC. As an independent arm of the Department of Health, the NHMRC funds high quality health and medical research, builds research capability in Australia, support the translation of health and medical research into better health outcomes, and promote the ethics and integrity in research. Non-health research is funded by the Australian Research Council. Activities The National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992' provides for NHMRC to pursue activities designed to: * raise the standard of individual and public health throughout Australia * foster the development of con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Kelso
Professor Anne Kelso (born 1954) is an Australian biomedical researcher specialising in immunology and influenza. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Education and career Kelso obtained her Bachelor of Science (Honours) in 1975 and PhD in immunology in 1980 at the University of Melbourne. Following postdoctoral research at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Kelso undertook research in the laboratories of Donald Metcalf and Gustav Nossal at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (1982-1992) and then the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (now QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute) (1992-2007). Kelso was also Director/CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology from 2000 until 2006. In 2007, she returned to Melbourne as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza until 2015 when she took up the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', and provides competitive research funding to academics and researchers at Australian universities. Most health and medical research in Australia is funded by the more specialised National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), which operates under a separate budget. ARC does not directly fund researchers, but however allocates funds to individual schemes with specialised scopes, such as Discover (fundamental and empirical research) and Linkage (domestic and international collaborative projects). Most of these schemes fall under the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP), whereby institutions must compete amongst each other for funding. ARC also administers the Excellence in Research for Australia framework (ERA), which provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Medical Officer (Australia)
The Chief Medical Officer is the principal health advisor to the Australian government. The position is a medical appointment, reporting to the Departmental secretary for the Department of Health (Australia), Department of Health. The position is responsible for the Office of Health Protection which itself has responsibility for biosecurity in Australia, biosecurity, immunisation and disease surveillance. The position is also responsible for "maintaining high-quality relationships between the department, the medical profession, medical colleges, universities and other key stakeholders". Other responsibilities of the position vary according to the skills and background of the officeholder. The position was originally created in November 1982 because the newly appointed Director-General of Health was not a doctor. The position is an advisory in nature and does not have executive or operational authority. , the Chief Medical Officer is Paul Kelly (doctor), Paul Kelly, succeeding Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabelle Bennett
Annabelle Claire Bennett (born 8 January 1950) is the Chancellor of Bond University and a former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Early life and education Annabelle Claire Bennett (born Darin) was born in Sydney, Australia, to Emanuel Darin (born Finkelstein) and Raissa Darin (born Atlas). Bennett's father was a lawyer, and at an early age she had hopes of following him into the legal profession. Her father, however, thought that law was a bad career choice for women, because "you had to be better than the best to break even" and discouraged his daughter from pursuing this ambition. Instead, Bennett studied science at the University of Sydney and completed a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the same institution. In 1980, still interested in the legal profession, Bennett went on to study law at the University of New South Wales. Career After graduating from the University of New South Wales, Bennett began practising as a barrister, specialising in intellectual property law. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyn Howells
Gwyn Howells (13 May 191826 July 1997) was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of the Department of Health. Life and career Howells was born on 13 May 1918 in Birmingham, England. He studied at the University of London. He joined the Department of Health A health department or health ministry is a part of government which focuses on issues related to the general health of the citizenry. Subnational entities, such as states, counties and cities, often also operate a health department of their ow ... in 1966, as first assistant director-general in charge of the tuberculosis division. Howells was appointed Director-General of Health in 1973. He left the position on 31 December 1982, five months ahead of his official date of retirement. Howells died on 26 July 1997. Awards In the 1979 Queen's Birthday Honours Howells was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for service as Director-General of the Department of Health. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrie Willett
Lawrence John "Lawrie" Willett (born 1938) is a former senior Australian public servant and university Chancellor. Life and career Willett was born in Brisbane in 1938. He joined the Commonwealth Public Service, in the Department of Customs and Excise, in 1957, after completing his secondary schooling at Brisbane State High School , motto_translation = Knowledge is Power , city = South Brisbane , state = Queensland , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Public, selective, co-educational, secondary, .... Willett's early public service positions were in Queensland, before he transferred to Canberra in 1963. Willett worked as a senior Customs representative in Tokyo between 1971 and 1974. Willett was Director-General of the Department of Health between 1983 and 1984. He was the first person with a non-medical background to be appointed to that role. In October 1984, he was appointed Chairman of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard McKay
Bernard V. "Bernie" McKay (born 1939 or 1940) is a former senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Health between 1984 and 1987. Life and career McKay was born in 1939 or 1940. From 1972 to 1974, McKay was Assistant Director of ACT Health Services. McKay was Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Health between December 1982 and September 1984, before the Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed him to head the Australian Government Department of Health. His Department of Health appointment lasted until July 1987, when the Department was merged with the Department of Community Services to become the Department of Community Services and Health The Department of Community Services and Health was an Australian government department that existed between July 1987 and June 1991. History The Department of Community Services and Health was one of 16 'super-ministries' announced .... When the merger took place, McKay was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Larkins
Richard Graeme Larkins (born 17 May 1943) is the former Chancellor of La Trobe University. He was the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from 2003 to June 2009. Prior to this, he had a distinguished career in medicine, scientific research and academic management. Early life Larkins is the son of Graeme Larkins and Margaret "Peg" Rosanove. His father was a medical doctor who specialised in geriatric medicine. His mother was a lawyer and Victoria's first female judge on the Family Court of Australia. Larkins attended Melbourne Grammar School, where he was dux. He then entered Trinity College while studying medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated as the top student and won 13 of the 15 graduation prizes. Career Larkins' medical research and clinical work was in diabetes and endocrinology. He was the James Stewart Chair of Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1984 to 1997. He was then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Saunders (vice-chancellor)
Nicholas Andrew Saunders, (born 26 June 1946) is an Australian academic who served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 2004 to 2011. Early life Saunders was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Newington College (1959–1962), before graduating in medicine from the University of Sydney. Medical and academic career Saunders undertook his specialist physician training at Royal North Shore Hospital. In 1974 he spent two years as a Research Fellow at McMaster University Medical Centre in Canada, followed by two years as assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was a foundation member of the University of Newcastle Faculty of Medicine in 1978 and Professor of Medicine from 1983. Saunders practiced as a specialist in respiratory and sleep medicine at the Royal Newcastle Hospital and then the John Hunter Hospital from 1990 until 1992, where he was also Chair of the Department of Medicine. From Newcastle he went on to become the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the prime minister, the ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (lower house) and Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal territories, the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Australian monarch, currently King Charles III, is represented by the governor-general. The Australian Government in its executive ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shine
John Shine (born 3 July 1946) is an Australian biochemist and molecular biologist. Shine and Lynn Dalgarno discovered the nucleotide sequence, called the Shine-Dalgarno sequence, necessary for the initiation and termination of protein synthesis. He directed the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney from 1990 to 2011. In May 2018 Shine was elected President of the Australian Academy of Science. Background and early career The brother of scientist, Richard Shine, John Shine was born in Brisbane in 1946 and completed his university studies at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, graduating with a bachelor of science with honours in 1972 and completing his PhD in 1975. During the course of his studies he and his supervisor, Lynn Dalgarno, discovered the RNA sequence necessary for ribosome binding and the initiation of protein synthesis in the bacterium ''Escherichia coli''. The sequence was named the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. This was a key discover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Metcalfe (public Servant)
Dr Arthur John Metcalfe (26 June 189524 March 1971) was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of the Department of Health. Life and career Metcalfe was born in Newcastle on 26 June 1895 to English-born parents. In October 1947, Metcalfe was appointed Commonwealth Director-General of Health, having been Acting-Director-General for more than a year prior after the illness and death of former Director-General Frank McCallum. He led the Department implementing the ''National Health Act 1953'', which consolidated the hospital, pharmaceutical and medical benefits schemes operated by the Australian Government. He retired from the position in 1960. In 1961 he took on an appointment as consultant to Lederie Laboratories Products. Metcalfe died on 24 March 1971 in Sydney, aged 76. Awards In 1947, Metcalfe was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
