Australia. New centre of excellence

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(2003), "Australia. New centre of excellence", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 16 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2003.06216gab.009

Australia. New centre of excellence

Australia

New centre of excellenceKeywords: Aborigines, Torres Strait, Clinical research, Excellence, Australia

The Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia, in partnership with Flinders University, will receive more than A $1.8 million over five years to establish Australia's first Centre of Clinical Research Excellence dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.

The new Centre is part of the Centres of Clinical Research Excellence Program administered by the National Health and Medical Research Council, which already has nine major health research institutions in Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland and Western Australia. The Program encourages innovative clinical research, ensures effective translation of the outcomes of this research into clinical practice for the benefit of all Australians and provides excellent clinical research training opportunities for new researchers.

Announcing the new centre, the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Kay Patterson, said that the centre would help train future leaders in Aboriginal community-controlled health research and find solutions to the health disadvantage facingIndigenous Australians:

"The Centre will focus on issues that are of national relevance to Indigenous Australians and provide a range of research and other training opportunities to increase the capacity of Indigenous communities to direct and conduct their own health research independently."