Publications
NZHR Submission on New Zealand Productivity Commission’s Draft Report “New Zealand firms: Reaching for the frontier”.
The Productivity Commission’s report includes a general focus on the need for improved productivity to be driven by innovation through investment in research and development, with a specific focus on the role of health R&D. Much of the report’s commentary in this regard echoes issues that have been previously raised by NZHR, including the health…
Read MoreNZHR Briefing Paper for Incoming Ministers November 2020
NZHR has sent briefing papers to the incoming Ministers and Associate Ministers of Health and Research, Science and Innovation, with copies to Opposition party spokespeople, the Chief Executives of the Health Research Council and Ministry of Health, and the Prime Minister’s, MBIE’s and MoH’s Chief Science Advisors. We continue to advocate strongly for health research…
Read MoreNZHR Annual Report 2020
Click here to read the 2020 Annual Report of New Zealanders for Health Research
Read MoreHEALTH RESEARCH: A PUBLIC HEALTH IMPERATIVE:
Poster presentation to the 2020 World Congress on Public Health, Rome
Read MoreNational’s health research policies
Social media release New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) has written to all current parliamentary parties, as set out below, pointing out both the current level of government underinvestment in health research and the absence of any recommendations in the Health and Disability System Report for embedding health research as an essential component of the…
Read MoreGreen’s health research policies
New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) has written to all current parliamentary parties, as set out below, pointing out both the current level of government underinvestment in health research and the absence of any recommendations in the Health and Disability System Report for embedding health research as an essential component of the health system. Read…
Read MoreNZHR 2020 Poll Report – General Edition
Click here to read the general edition of the 2020 Poll Report
Read More2020 Budget Special: Health Research Saves Lives!
Click here to read NZHR’s special budget newsletter for May.
Read MoreCurrently active clinical trials in New Zealand
An analysis of currently active clinical trials registered on the Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR) as at 28th February 2020, and the US clinicaltrials.gov register as at 17th March 2020. Read more
Read MoreMedia Release: Covid 19: “Nip it, sweetie!”
Advocacy organisation New Zealanders for Health Research (NZHR) has released the second of two open letters to New Zealanders. NZHR Chief Executive Chris Higgins said that the first letter, “zip it, sweetie!”, pushed the message that there should be a stop to non-expert negative opinions threatening to undermine public confidence in the science which was…
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