About the Fellowships program
The Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowships (CRF) program was established in 2018 to support Queensland Health clinician researchers to undertake research linked to their practice.
The program recognises that clinician researchers (including doctors, nurses, dentists, allied health practitioners, public health professionals and clinical scientists) are uniquely placed to identify clinical issues that can benefit from further research, lead patient-focused research discoveries, and facilitate improved patient care through research translation.
Since inception, 7 rounds of CRF have been undertaken, awarding 146 fellows with funding to undertake various valuable projects that aim to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes.
Objectives of the CRF program
- Support the career development of Queensland Health’s emerging clinician researchers and research leaders, particularly toward securing competitive research funding from national agencies and other funding sources.
- Support health and medical research projects that have real potential to lead to better health outcomes for Queenslanders.
- Build collaborative linkages between Queensland Health and the wider Queensland health and medical research sector to support the translation of research discoveries into frontline healthcare.
- Build health and medical research capacity across all of Queensland, including for regional, rural and remote areas.
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Previous CRF recipients
There are more than 105 active Queensland Health clinical research Fellows state-wide. These Fellows are undertaking a range of valuable projects to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes.
- Queensland Health CRF Rounds 1–7 recipients (PDF 326 kB)
- Queensland Health TCRF Round 1–2 recipients (PDF 238 kB)
Clinician researcher projects
Read about the work of Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowship recipients:
- CJ Cabilan (CRF R2) – Exploring the development, implementation, and the effectiveness of an occupational violence risk assessment tool (ALERT checklist) in emergency departments
- Doctor Angela Ratsch (CRF R2) – Indigenous women's maternal tobacco and nicotine exposure: Patterns and validation of exposure, genotype and physiologic impacts, and barriers/facilitators to cessation
- Professor Dan Siskind (CRF R2) – Helping people with schizophrenia living longer, healthier lives.