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Research Centres
Pushing medical and health boundaries to shape tomorrow
Our centres are collaborative, diverse and expert. Collectively, they undertake transformative research across all disciplines of medicine and health to address the needs of society and improve health outcomes for all.
Our centres fall under three distinct categories and undertake research of strategic importance. They include: Flagship, Impact and Incubator.
Flagship centres
These centres conduct world-leading research to address significant, long-term challenges and are focused on delivering outcomes through the execution of multiple research programmes in their defined field.
Impact centres
Impact centres focus on specific areas of health and medical research of national significance. They deliver concentrated expertise on one or two subjects within their defined research area.
Incubators
Incubators identify a societal need and look to test their research capabilities to meet the challenge of addressing it. They bring together researchers who may not otherwise collaborate, to take a risk on a new idea with the potential for significant community impact.
Our incubators include:
Other research groups and initiatives
The NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence grant program provides support for teams of researchers to pursue collaborative research and develop capacity in clinical, population health and health services research.
We are home to a number of these centres and support the conduct and development of innovative, high-quality and collaborative research.
- Acceptability of a new non-surgical care pathway for patients waiting for lumbar spinal stenosis surgery
- Australia and New Zealand Low Back Pain Research Network (ANZBACK)
- Australia and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC)
- Centre of Research Excellence: Partnering with patients with chronic kidney disease to transform care and outcomes (CRE-PACT)
- Centre of Research Excellence for Better Outcomes in Inflammatory Arthritis
- Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health
- Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health
- Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood
- Centre of Research Excellence - Integrated Community Care for People with Complex Multi-morbidities
- Centre of Research Excellence in Melanoma
- Centre of Research Excellence in Population Ageing Research
- Centre of Research Excellence in the Prevention of Fall-related Injuries
- Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Illness and Substance Use (PREMISE)
- Centre of Research Excellence in Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Centre of Research Excellence - Reducing suicidal thoughts and behaviours in young people presenting for health care
- Centre of Research Excellence - STRengthening systems for InDigenous healthcare Equity (CRE-STRIDE)
- Centre of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control on both sides of our border
- NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for Better Outcomes in Coronary Artery Disease
- 1000 Norms Project
- ACRF Australian Centre of Excellence in Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis (ACEMID)
- ACRF Image X Institute
- Acquired Brain Injury Communication Lab
- Ageing and Health Resource Group
- AgHealth Australia
- Australian Family and Disability Studies Research Collaboration
- Australasian Interstitial Lung Disease Registry (AILDR)
- Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH)
- Bowel Cancer and Biomarker Research Group
- Breastscreen Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST)
- Cancer and Stem Cell Laboratory – Wang Lab
- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Group
- Climate Change, Human Health and Social Impacts Node
- Critical Infection Group
- Collaborative Health Education Sydney
- Cyberpsychology Research Group
- Digital Health Human Factors Research Group
- Dr Liang Voice Program
- Edith Collins Centre
- Empathy Simulation Training Suit and Training Program
- Family Medicine Research Centre
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Australian Registry
- Health and Clinical Analytics
- Health Governance (HealthGov)
- Health Literacy Lab
- Project HIRAID
- Interdisciplinary Home-bAsed Reablement Program (I-HARP)
- John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research
- Kolling Institute
- Living Well with Chronic Disease Research Group
- Melanoma Institute Australia
- MELSELF Project
- National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH)
- Neurokids Research Laboratory
- Neuro-Musculoskeletal Research Collaborative
- Neurological Rehabilitation Research Group
- NSW Brain Tissue Resource Centre
- Pain Management Research Institute
- Prevention Research Collaboration
- Publication and Research Integrity in Medical Research (PRIMeR)
- Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment (ReST)
- Research in Implementation Science and eHealth (RISe)
- Sports Injury, Sports Performance, and Activity Promotion
- Students As Lifestyle Activists and Adolescent Asthma Action (SALSA and Triple A)
- Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe)
- Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration (SCHC)
- Sydney Vietnam Initiative
- Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory
- Thyroid Cancer Research Group
- Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre
- Watershed Interventions for Systems Health in Fiji (WISH Fiji)
- Wiser Healthcare
- Work and Health Research Team
