March 22, 2016
A change to judging career disruption
Let’s start with the obvious. Winning funding for health and medical research is soul-crushingly hard.…
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February 15, 2016
Could the review of the NHMRC’s grant programme save centuries of researchers’ time?
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has announced a “structural review” of its grant programme,…
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December 11, 2015
Good ideas from the 9th Health Services & Policy Research conference, 7-9 December 2015
Microblog post by Elaine Lum (@ElaineLumx) This week, I found myself participating in a conference…
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November 3, 2015
It’s time for some health care reform
Most people know that our former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was instrumental in the introduction…
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October 2, 2015
Behavioural economics on the ward: how economics can help us think about health decisions
Making health decisions is not always easy. A patient learning that she has a throat…
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September 23, 2015
#sharescientificdata – an idea cultured in the laboratory
10 years ago I was a junior medical scientist doing drug research. Although I enjoyed…
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September 7, 2015
Further research called for around environmental cleaning and HAIs
A new report by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) calls for…
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July 29, 2015
The NHMRC have an unhealthy obsession with appearances
The NHMRC has rejected a Project Grant application because a header was in 13…
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July 27, 2015
When economists meet librarians
AusHSI regularly delivers short courses on cost-effectiveness analysis but recently we had a special group…
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July 6, 2015
SHOW ME THE MONEY DATA
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, predicts that linked data will be…
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