Publications
Budget 2023: Government Health Research Investment Underwhelms
Budget 2023: Government Health Research Investment Underwhelming – again media release 22nd May 2023 “New Zealanders have once again been let down by Budget 2023’s underwhelming 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…
Read MoreTherapeutic Products Bill
Following our written submission to Parliament’s Health Committee we have followed up with an oral submission where we’ve referenced submissions from NZHR members Douglas Pharmaceuticals, Malaghan Institute and MSD (Merck) in order to amplify both their voices and our own. The text of the oral submission can be read here
Read MoreNZHR submission on the Therapeutic Products Bill
NZHR has made a submission on the Therapeutic Products Bill. Because products used in clinical trials are yet to be confirmed or otherwise as being therapeutic they need to be unambiguously exempted from many of the Bill’s provisions. It is also important that the new legislation does not impose additional burdens on the carrying out…
Read MoreNZHR 2023 Budget Policy Statement submission
NZHR has made a submission to Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee recommending that the 2023 Budget Policy Statement The full submission can be read here
Read MoreHealth Research Saves Lives! December 2022
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Read MoreThe (New) New Zealand System – Research and Clinical Trials
On 29th November 2022 at NZHR’s “health research at crossroads” workshop Dr Ian Town, Chief Science Advisor, Ministry of Health, presented on the place and role of health research and clinical trials in New Zealand’s reformed health sector. His presentation can be viewed here
Read MoreThe economic value of health research – Feasibility study
On 29th November 2022 at NZHR’s “health research at crossroads” workshop Sarah Hogan, Principal Economist, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), presented findings from and NZHR commissioned report into the economic value of investing in health research. Her presentation can be viewed 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 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 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…
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