AAMRI NSW Strategy – 2025

AAMRI NSW has been established to help transform the NSW’s medical research ecosystem.

Our work compliments the AAMRI national agenda and supports both the NSW Health Research and Innovation Strategy and the broader NSW Health Future Health Strategy.

AAMRI NSW’s strategic priorities

Priority 1 – Establish our collaboration

Establish a strong AAMRI NSW collaboration that can become the voice of health and medical research for the sector. Projects for 2025 include:

  • Maintain the Chapter’s robust governance structures and systems so AAMRI NSW can represent the issues and views of our 17 member institutes
  • Stage a mid-year AAMRI NSW Symposium for NSW’s health and medical research sector to demonstrate the social and economic impact and showcase new initiatives.

Priority 2 – Influence health and medical research in NSW

Help implement the emerging NSW Health Research and Innovation Strategy – including initiating collaborative projects with the NSW Health Office of Health and Medical Research (OHMR). Projects for 2025 include:

  • Collaborate with OHMR on projects that transform the sector, improving our translation, commercialisation and financial sustainability (for example the Clinical Trails Collaboration Project detailed below)
  • Representing the sector with Investment NSW, supporting the implementation of the soon to be announced NSW Industry policy
  • Establish a NSW Parliamentary Friends of Medical Research group so our leaders and lawmakers understand the impact and importance of NSW’s medical research sector.

Priority 3 – Match funding with impact

Advocate for funding for the full costs of research and embed the proposition: ‘NSW’s medical research institutes deliver high social, economic and patient ‘returns on investment’. Projects for 2025 include:

  • Commission a Future Scenarios Study with consultant, Biointelect, to determine the AAMRI NSW member’s collective return on investment to NSW
  • Produce and publicise an AAMRI NSW Report (derivative from the AAMRI national report data) that provides robust data on our sector’s workforce, competitive grant successes, financial performance, and research commercialisation and translation activities
  • Collaborate with NSW Health Office of Health and Medical Research on their review of the Medical Research Support Program funding model
  • Partner with Office of Health and Medical Research and other state governments to influence the Federal Government’s funding of medical research.
AAMRI NSW Strategy 2025 – FINALDownload