Researchers can apply for a range of funding opportunities through our dedicated portal HRC Gateway. At Gateway, you will find detailed information on our different funding rounds including guidance on how to apply.
As a government funding agency, we invest in excellent ideas and innovations, ensuring we support research that improves health outcomes, strengthens the health system, and adds value to the nation’s science, innovation and technology system and the wider economy.
Our research portfolio spans all disciplines, including biomedical, clinical, public health, and health services research. We also fund a range of career development awards and fellowships for health researchers. We fund research that builds knowledge and fuels discoveries, with a view to both immediate impact and longer-term health gains.
The research funded by the HRC leads to disease prevention, treatment and cures, as well as better models of care, improved efficiencies, and commercial applications.
We have more than 800 health research contracts under active management at any one time. These contracts range in duration from a few months through to seven years. The graphic below shows investment across all our active contracts in the year ending 30 June 2024.
The HRC Research Repository contains details of HRC-funded research over the past 10 years, including study title, lay summary, lead investigator, host organisation, the sum awarded, year of study commencement, and contract duration.
Related documents
You can find more detailed information on the HRC’s strategic direction, priorities, goals and targets in the following documents:
- Statement of Intent – details our strategic direction and desired outcomes over the medium-term and provides a performance framework with indicators.
- Statement of Performance Expectation – sets out our operating intentions for the coming year, with key performance indicators and targets.
- Annual Report – reports progress against both annual and longer-term performance indicators and provides details of financial accountability.
- Investment Impact Report – captures the difference our research and researchers have made, from better health outcomes and changes to practice and policy, through to economic returns and commercialisation.
Detailed information on our current and recent funding opportunities is available at the links below:
- HRC Gateway - Funding - Ideas funding – funding opportunities for excellent, innovative and impactful research, where the research ideas are initiated by the lead researchers.
- HRC Gateway - Funding - Priorities funding – targeted funding opportunities initiated by the HRC for research into specific topics, including priority health issues, gaps and opportunities.
- HRC Gateway - Funding - People-focused funding – career development opportunities.
Information on the strategic goals and priorities of the New Zealand health research sector and the science, innovation and technology sector can be found at the following links: