As we wrap up 2025, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has collaborated with Monash Partners this year. Your commitment and partnership have strengthened our collective ability to advance impactful health research and research translation across our community.
This year has been marked by meaningful progress, and we are grateful to the healthcare leaders, clinicians, consumers and researchers who have contributed to our work.
A few key achievements from 2025 include:
- Hosting our inaugural state-wide Summit, connecting stakeholders focused on Bridging Research and Quality in Healthcare.
- Welcoming Ainslie Cahill AM to Council as a Consumer Representative.
- Securing the MRFF Survivorship Care and Collaborative Research Prioritisation Grant to improve outcomes for people aged over 65 following critical illness, working across our partner health services and primary care networks.
- Renewing our Equity Trustees partnership for another five years, receiving $2.95 million to support research benefiting children and people living with chronic and complex conditions.
- Partnering with the Medibank Better Health Research Hub, enabling nearly $100K in support for Outcome Health to improve antidepressant prescribing.
- Co-designing the Health Research Hub to strengthen consumer and community involvement.
- Securing the NHMRC Advancing Research Translation Centres grant for $1M over two years to address the priorities identified in our strategic plan.
- Celebrating excellence through our Early and Mid-Career Research Awards, including the inaugural Consumer Involvement in Research Award.
- Awarding nine Equity Trustees–Monash Partners 2025 STAR Clinician Fellowships, ensuring each health service now has a STAR Fellow.
- Progressing our Digital Health and Data Prioritisation Plan through comprehensive review and stakeholder engagement.
- Delivering 35 education and engagement events to more than 2,400 participants.
- Taking on the role of Chair and host centre of the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA).
Looking to 2026, we are excited to continue working alongside our partners, researchers and community to drive better health outcomes through innovative and collaborative research.
Our office will close at 5pm on Friday 19 December and reopen at 9am on Monday 5 January. Wishing you a restful break, a safe festive season, and a positive start to the year ahead. We look forward to reconnecting in 2026.
Read our Monash Partners Connections Newsletter December issue.
