Insecure research jobs threaten Australia’s capacity to respond to emerging medical problems

By Andrew MacDonald. The report prepared for the ASMR by Deloitte Access Economics entitled Australia’s health and medical research workforce: Expert people providing exceptional returns, concludes that five years of static investment into the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has resulted in “falling grant funding rates and a decline in the NHMRC-funded workforce”. More...