Further investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men's health research funding is urgently required

Kootsy Canuto, Jacob Prehn, Karla Canuto, Rosie Neate, Graham Gee, Corey Kennedy, Celina Gaweda, Oliver Black, James Smith, Alex Brown

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Abstract

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Original languageEnglish
Article number100025
Pages (from-to)1-3
Number of pages3
JournalAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Volume47
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2023

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Funding Information:
Likewise, the NHMRC provided the authors with data for the same 10-year period from 2011 to 2020, received in October 2021. The NHMRC awarded $8,407,854,815 in grants. Of this funding, $565,088,022 (6.72%) was awarded to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, noting that for a research project to qualify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, only 20% or more of the research effort and/or capacity building must relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. From this amount, five projects, totalling $2,442,870, were reportedly awarded exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health. Close inspection of the data and review of the five projects, however, found that one, worth $783,280.68, was not focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men but was a men's health project focused on all Australian men and their subsequent publications have not specified the number of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander men included in the study. We deem this project, misclassified and have removed it from the data including in table 1 and Figure 1. The adjusted figure for funding exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health is $1,659,589.85, equating to 0.29% of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health funding.

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