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2022 Kantar NZHR Opinion Poll Results
New Zealand speaks “health research system at crossroads” Read here
Read MoreNew Zealanders for Health Research Annual report 2021 – 2022
NZHR’s 2022 annual report which outlines our advocacy and other activities for the year ending June 2022 can be read here
Read MoreA Fair Chance for All: Breaking the cycle of persistent disadvantage
NZHR has made a submission to the Productivity Commission’s “A Fair Chance for All enquiry”. We make the case that those who die prematurely from amenable and non amenable causes are not getting a fair chance to live well to a ripe old age, recommend that greater investment in health and other research should be…
Read MoreSubmission to Finance Minister re 2023 Budget Policy Statement and Budget
NZHR has over several years repeatedly called for investment in health research to be substantially increased. However, government investment in health research has historically stagnated somewhere between about 0.6% and 0.8% of government health care costs and in the absence of any indications to the contrary is forecast to fall to 0.51% after 2025/26 when…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! September 2022
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Read MoreNZHR presentation to the Queenstown Research Week plenary session on “the future of the New Zealand research system”
NZHR’s Chief Executive Chris Higgins was the lead presenter at this event alongside HRC Chief Executive Sunny Collings, MBIE Chief Science Advisor Gary Evans, and the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Juliet Gerrard. Our presentation focussed on the role of health research in addressing New Zealand’s amenable and non-amenable premature mortality figures including inequitable outcomes…
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! June 2022
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Read MorePae Ora (Healthy Futures) legislation amendment request response.
The Minister of Health’s reply to NZHR’s 30th May letter can be read here
Read MoreUrgent request for amendments to the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) legislation
New Zealanders for Health Research has written to Health Minister Hon Andrew Little urgently seeking tabling of amendments to the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) legislation when the Bill is presented to the Committee of the whole House. The amendments will improve the legislation by requiring that service and programme delivery is evidence based, and by…
Read MoreBudget 2022: Health Research Funding Fails New Zealanders and the Health system
“New Zealanders have once again been let down by Budget 2022’s support for health research” New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) Chief Executive Chris Higgins said today. “Health research and innovation is the single most important way in which we improve our health and healthcare – by identifying and implementing the best means to prevent,…
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