{"id":31782,"date":"2016-03-04T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=31782"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:15","slug":"is-poor-funding-of-climate-and-health-research-by-nhmrc-political-bias-asks-takvera-auspol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/is-poor-funding-of-climate-and-health-research-by-nhmrc-political-bias-asks-takvera-auspol\/","title":{"rendered":"Is poor funding of climate and health research by NHMRC political bias? asks @takvera #Auspol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Health Minister Sussan Ley and Prime Minister Turnbull announcing NHMRC grants<\/p><\/div>\nIs there a funding bias with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) when it comes to climate change and health? and particularly extreme heat and population health?<\/p>\n

Some climate and health researchers say there is a definite bias, over a number of years, against funding health and climate change related research projects. One result of this wide-spread perception, is that researchers self-censor their funding proposals to avoid mentioning climate change to stand a much better chance of grant approval.<\/p>\n

From 2000 to 2015 the National Health and Medical Research Council funded just 30 research projects with a climate change component. Of these projects, just three relate to the impact of rising temperatures and extreme heat on population health.(1)<\/p>\n

On the 3rd March Heath Minister Sussan Ley and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced<\/a> $129.4 million in grants from the NHMRC to Australia\u2019s preeminent researchers in health and medical research.(2)<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth and medical research is essential for the development of more effective medical treatments and key to delivering real health benefits to Australians every day.\u201d said Sussan Ley.<\/p>\n

Ninety six projects were funded to start in 2016, yet only one of these was in any way related to climate change.(3) No doubt all of these projects were worthy of funding, yet climate change impact on health, being such a complex multi-dimensional slow moving crisis, was all but ignored in the latest funding round.<\/p>\n

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@sarahinscience<\/a> @DocsEnvAus<\/a> I note nothing here about #heathealth<\/a> or #climatechange<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/hcuuXCwMEM<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mark Plackett (@MarkPlackett1) March 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n