Medicine research grant
August 23, 2013
Researchers from the
University of Sydney’s Faculty of
Pharmacy and the Sydney Medical
School have landed a major funding
grant from the National Health and
Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
to set up a new evidence-gathering
research venture that will generate
mass information on medicine
efficacy over Australians' lifetimes.
The NHMRC awarded five years
of funding for the new Centre for
Research Excellence (CRE) in Health
Services Research, focusing on
Medicines and Ageing.
The initiative will use large
linked datasets of routinely
collected medicines and other
health information, with evidence
produced set to “influence national
pharmaceutical policy decisions
and health professionals making
important treatment decisions with
their patients”.
The CRE is being jointly led by
Professor Andrew McLachlan from
the Pharmacy faculty, who said
it would generate “quantitative
evidence on the real-world use,
harms, costs and cost-effectiveness
of specific medicines in relation to
ageing”.
A key element will be the training
and development of researchers
in the use and evaluation of
medicines data, with the outcome
helping to build a “national
workforce and research methods in
pharmacoepidemiology to inform
and evaluate health policy”.
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