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The Health Research Council is the home of health research in New Zealand.
We’re here to improve the health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders through our process of identifying and supporting high-quality, high-value research that delivers far-reaching impact within the health and science landscape.
The Minister of Health is the minister responsible for the HRC, and appoints the 10-member governing Council. Parliament appropriates funding for the HRC through Vote Business, Science and Innovation, which is administered by the Minister of Science, Research and Innovation.
The Health Research Council Act 1990 established our key statutory functions as:
- Advising the Minister of Health on national health research policy
- Advising on health research priorities for New Zealand
- Initiating and supporting health research
- Fostering the recruitment, training and retention of health researchers in New Zealand.
For more on the HRC's work, see What we do . In our Resource Library , you’ll find a range of other documents outlining our duties, vision and strategic goals.
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The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is responsible for managing the New Zealand Government’s investment in health research.
About the Health Research Council
The Health Research Council's (HRC's) mission is ‘benefiting New Zealand through health research’, with a vision of improved health and quality of life for all.
The HRC invests in a broad range of health research on issues of importance to New Zealand. It also supports the development of research careers so that New Zealand can have a well-trained workforce in the future.
The HRC also contributes to maintaining an ethical and safe health research environment. Its committees:
- provide advice on gene technology
- accredit health and disability ethics committees and institutional ethics committees
- monitor the safety of large clinical trials and
- review applications to use new medicines in trials.
The HRC was established under the Health Research Council Act 1990 and is responsible to the Minister of Health. Its major funding agreement is through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
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In Budget 2016, the Government announced it would invest an extra $97 million over 4 years in health research. This brings the total funding available through this mechanism for the HRC to $87.2 million in 2016/17, rising to $120.2 million per annum in 2019/20.
HRC also receives some funding from us through the Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund and the Catalyst Fund.
Visit the HRC website for more information about funded research (external link) .
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Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand Including Recommended Dietary Intakes
This document outlines required essential nutrient intake believed adequate to meet the nutritional needs of the majority of healthy people to prevent deficiency. The document can be used by health professionals to assess the likelihood of inadequate intake in individuals or groups.
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The Nutrient Reference Values outline the levels of intake of essential nutrients considered to be adequate to meet the known nutritional needs of practically all healthy people for prevention of deficiency states. The document can be used by health professionals to assess the likelihood of inadequate intake in individuals or groups of people.
The NRVs are reviewed in an ongoing manner as resources allow. The NRVs were originally endorsed on 9 September 2005, under Section 7(1)(a) of the NHMRC Act 1992. These were published in 2006. NHMRC approved revised NRV recommendations for fluoride on 21 November 2016 and sodium on 13 July 2017 under Section 14A of the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992. These updates were published in March and September 2017 respectively.
The supporting material including the Methodological Framework, any literature reviews and evidence summaries are authored by the Australian Government Department of Health (formerly the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing) and New Zealand Ministry of Health.
Further information is available on the NRV website .
Recent updates
2017 fluoride and sodium nrv revisions 2017.
The methodological Framework and a list of supporting documents can be found on the NRV website .
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