NHMRC Health Research Partnership: Prevention of Older People's Injuries.

In April 1999, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) published the document Paradigm Shift: Injury from problem to solution. This document provided a comprehensive overview of the burden of injury in Australia, and the current status of injury research. Future directions for injury research were identified. Later that year the Health Research Partnerships in Injury Committee was formed as a joint initiative of the NHMRC’s Strategic Research Development Committee and Research Committee. Applications for funding of injury research were invited. In order to be eligible to receive NHMRC funding, applicants were required to assemble a team of researchers with complementary expertise as well as secure funding from a range of organisations.