Current Sections: HRC Policy >> Research Policy >> Research PortfoliosThe Research Portfolios provide the framework for the investment in the HRC's annual contestable funding round for investigator-initiated research. The HRC instituted a portfolio-based investment framework in 1999, in response to a Ministerial directive from MoRST that was set out in the Blueprint for Change. The HRC was required to develop a Research Portfolio system and research strategies and priorities for each portfolio.
The scope of the portfolios was kept intentionally broad, and the HRC resisted creating portfolios around specific diseases or research disciplines. Each portfolio covers a distinct area and, although there is a degree of overlap, each has a distinctive focus.
RPAC reviews the nine Research Portfolio Strategies on an annual basis, in order to identify any need for updates or changes. In 2007, the Secretariat completed a low-level review of the Research Portfolio strategies in order to bring them up to date with changes to legislation, new national strategies and newly-available statistics.
Assessment of all fundable proposals submitted to the annual funding round includes relevance to the priorities identified in the research portfolio strategies. Applicants should review the HRC's priorities for health research in each Research Portfolio strategy and discuss how their application contributes to any of the priorities.
Research Portfolio Strategies
The HRC's Investment Strategy
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