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We will upload information about the latest recipients to have been awarded HRC funding for all of our funding opportunities as this information becomes officially available.

The information provided is for ‘year to date’ funding.

Previous Recipient List

  • Pacific Health Research Summer Studentship
    Liliani 'Atiola
    The University of Auckland
    How food policy awards impact Healthy Village Action Zone (HVAZ) churches
    $5,000
    3 months
  • 2011 Career Development Awards - Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship
    Haxby Abbott
    University of Otago
    Optimising cost-effectiveness in the management of osteoarthritis
    $500,000
    51 months
  • Pacific Health Research Summer Studentship
    Mrs Litiuingi Ahio
    AUT University
    Vaevae manava and food security in Tongan communities: A way forward
    $5,000
    10 weeks
  • Pacific Health Research Development Grant
    Mrs Litiuingi Ahio
    AUT University
    Sustaining a community-based health initiative using digital technologies
    $10,000
    6 months
  • Pacific Health Research Summer Studentship
    Ms Zarah Allport
    The University of Auckland
    A joint Auckland District Health Board and Waitemata District Health Board Pacific Demographic and Health status report
    $5,000
    10 weeks
  • Clinical Research Training Fellowship
    Dr Yvonne Anderson
    The University of Auckland
    Taranaki District Health Board
    Whanau Pakari: A multi-disciplinary intervention for children with weight issues
    $250,000
    48 months
  • Clinical research training fellowship
    Ms Varsha Asrani
    University of Auckland
    Developing a gut dysfunction scoring tool in critical illness
    $317,420
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • Foxley Fellowship (2016 funding round)
    Dr Carol Atmore
    University of Otago, Dunedin
    Exploring and improving hospital care quality for New Zealand rural communities
    $222,000
    24 months
    Lay summary
  • Sir Charles Hercus health research fellowship (2018 funding round)
    Dr Htin Lin Aung
    University of Otago, Dunedin
    Combatting tuberculosis at local and international frontlines
    $500,000
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • Māori Health Research PhD Scholarship
    Ms Sharon Awatere
    Massey University
    Māori elders' resilience and arthritis: Measuring home health outcomes
    $109,500
    36 months
  • 2006 Career Development Award - Clinical Research Trainng Fellowship
    Dr Katinka Bach
    The University of Auckland
    The role of shear stress during artificial ventilation on preterm lung injury
    $216,000
    36 months
  • 2012 Career Development Awards - Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship
    David Baddeley
    The University of Auckland
    The nanostructure and organisation of cellular signalling domains
    $500,000
    48 months
  • 2012 Career Development Award - Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship
    Dr David Baddeley
    The University of Auckland
    The nanostructure and organisation of cellular signalling domains
    $500,000
    48 months
  • 2006 Career Development Award - Aust. Research Collaborative
    Michael Baker
    University of Otago
    Housing and health research programme
    $3,975
    3 months
  • Clinical research training fellowship (2018 funding round)
    Dr Ahmed Barazanchi
    University of Auckland
    Development and application of a risk prediction tool for emergency laparotomy
    $204,737
    24 months
    Lay summary
  • 2006 Career Development Award - Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship
    Dr Carolyn Barrett
    The University of Auckland
    Measuring sympathetic nerve activity
    $500,000
    60 months
  • Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship
    Dr Ghader Bashiri
    The University of Auckland
    Novel metabolic processes to target persistent tuberculosis
    $500,000
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • 2006 Career Development Award - Clinical Research Training Fellowship
    Simon Bennett
    Massey University, Wellington
    Cognitive behavioural therapy for depression with Maori tangata whaiora
    $191,858
    39 months
  • Clinical Practitoner Research Fellowship
    Dr Peter Bergin
    Auckland District Health Board
    Use of EpiNet platform for clinical trials and epidemiological studies in epilepsy
    $905,000
    5 years
  • 2009 Career Development Awards - DPPMa
    Pauline Boland
    University of Otago
    Resiliency and multiple sclerosis - individuals and carers - a qualitative investigation
    $17,820
    12 months