Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025
Created under the direction of the Executive Board and with input from our twenty partners, WAHTN’s Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025 defines our Vision, Mission, Purpose, and a series of Strategic Goals and Activities grouped under four pillars.
Our vision
The health of Western Australians is optimised through a collaboration of researchers, clinicians and consumers embedding research, innovation and its timely translation into world-class policy and practice.
Our mission
To support, catalyse and integrate innovative research with high-quality clinical care.
Our purpose
- Promote health research, innovation and translation in response to state and national health priorities
- Unify health researchers, clinicians, educators, consumers, health providers and industry to promote excellence and increase scale and national competiveness
- Enable excellent research and its translation into policy and practice
- Advocate on behalf of health researchers, clinicians and consumers
- Catalyse increased public and private investment in Western Australia’s health research and innovation
Strategic goals and activities
Collaborative partnerships
Contribute to national and international competitiveness through:
- Facilitating new and more diverse research partnerships at state, national and international level
- Leveraging investment opportunities
- Enhancing opportunities for WAHTN partners through collaborative investment in Australian Health Research Alliance Initiatives and Networks
- Facilitating major multi-partner WA-led bids for national and international competitive research funding
- Communicating research and innovation success through local and national networks to enhance translation of knowledge to practice at scale
Excellence in research and innovation
Promote excellence in research and innovation through:
- Facilitating the development of research platforms that enable research and innovation for WAHTN partners, including:
- biobanking
- clinical trial support
- data-driven healthcare
- Building on our strengths by identifying and supporting areas where WA research is at or near a level of global excellence
- Identifying and supporting research in specific areas of priority
Policy, ethics and governance
- Strengthen priority setting, research, and translation of research into practice through:
- Promoting a streamlined ethics and governance system
- Promoting a strong research culture in clinical settings, and providing support and guidance to ensure research is embedded and valued throughout clinical organisations
- Advocating for research-informed and research-enabling legislation, policy and governance
Workforce development
Enhance the capacity and capability of WA’s clinical research workforce including through:
- Advocating for quarantined research time
- Facilitating a coordinated state-wide approach to research training and education
Promote the involvement of consumers and community in all aspects of research activity.
Downloads
WAHTN Strategic Plan on a Page [PDF, 4MB]
WAHTN Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025 [PDF, 6MB]