Health and Medical Research core to National Resilience: AAHMS 2025 Election Platform
The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) has today launched its 2025 Election Platform, calling on all political parties and candidates to strengthen Australia’s future resilience by placing health and medical research at the centre of our national agenda.
As Australia faces increasing health system pressures, economic uncertainty, and global challenges, the Academy is urging all parties to recognise the central role of health and medical research in bolstering the nation’s long-term resilience, innovation capacity, and global competitiveness.
“Our health and medical research sector is one of Australia’s most valuable national assets,” said Academy President, Professor Louise Baur AM PresAHMS. “It not only delivers life-changing healthcare solutions but also economic returns, job creation, and the knowledge base we need to respond to the biggest challenges of our time.”
“To maintain our global edge and safeguard the wellbeing of future generations, we need bold, strategic investment in health and medical research now.”
The Academy’s 2025 Election Platform is centred on three key priorities:
Building future-fit health systems: embedding research and innovation as core functions of the health system, and ensuring inclusive and sustainable research careers for early-and-mid-career researchers and the clinician researcher workforce.
Maintaining trust in health and medical science: tackling misinformation, strengthening health literacy, and supporting public confidence in research and health advice.
Equity and access to health and medical research: addressing long-standing gaps in research on women’s health, and improving access to health and medical research expertise across disciplines and geographies.
The Academy is calling on candidates and parties to engage with the platform and to support its implementation as a critical pillar of national policy. The platform includes a series of clear, actionable recommendations that would deliver significant impact for patients, the economy, and society.
Parties and candidates are encouraged to read the full platform here.
A condensed summary version is available here.
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