Posted: 1 August 2024
The Department of Health and Aged Care is conducting a national audit of the Health and Medical Research Workforce, with the findings helping to inform the development of the National Health and Medical Research Strategy and support future policy planning.
As part of this work, the Department is conducting a National Survey to understand the demographic features, work environment, challenges, movements and motivations of health and medical researchers across Australia.
They want to hear from you if you have (at some point) worked in the health and medical research space. You may be in:
- a direct research role (performing research as a primary or secondary activity, in paid or unpaid roles including research students, and in university, medical research institutes, industry, health services or other settings), or
- a supportive role (not directly performing research yourself but supporting those who do, e.g. clinical trial coordinator, research nurses, biostatistician, laboratory technician, medical product research and development, research support officer, etc), or
- a non-research role currently, but have had one or more of the roles above in the past.
Please forward this email and survey link to your colleagues. It is important that as many respondents as possible are captured to form an accurate and broad picture of the health and medical research workforce.
The survey and will be open until 12th of August. It should take you approximately 15 – 25 minutes to complete, with the ability to come back to the survey and complete it prior to submission.
If you have any enquiries regarding the survey or the Workforce Audit in general please contact: HMRWorkforceAudit@health.gov.au.
