HRC Board member Suzanne Snively has won the 2013 Wellingtonian of the Year Award from a strong list of category winners at The Dominion Post-sponsored awards.
A new study on the socioeconomic outcomes for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) has found those not covered by ACC had their income drop by 45 per cent 30 months after the injury, whereas t
The HRC extends its warmest congratulatons to Professor Shanthi Ameratunga, the 2013 recipient of the Injury Prevention Network Te Manaia Leadership Award.
Former HRC Board member, Distinguished Professor Jane Harding from The University of Auckland, is to be awarded the Howard Williams Medal for 2014 at the Royal College of Physicians Congress in Auckland next May.
Nearly a third of pregnant Māori and non-Māori women report sleeping less than six hours in late stages of pregnancy, an HRC-funded study by Massey University sleep scientists has concluded.
The HRC, the Breast Cancer Research Trust and the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation have formed a joint research initiative to fund innovative research into breast cancer in New Zealand.
In this month's issue of Ethics Notes, Dr Nicola Atwool from Otago University discusses how ethical research allows children to participate not just as data providers but also as social actors capable of influencing how adults think.