Health Research Council of New Zealand

Those selected can then apply for permanent residence, subject to meeting visa criteria.

In New Zealand, the Health Research Council has used a lottery for research grants.

Reviewers first ask whether a proposal is potentially transformative and whether it's exploratory but viable.

Proposals passing that threshold enter a lottery.

We have a few acknowledgements and thank yous to make.

First of all, our funders, the Medical Research Future Fund of Australia, and also the Health Research Council of New Zealand.

We're endorsed by the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group and also ASIM Clinical Trials Network.

The sponsor is Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and the coordinating centre was the Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre.

the family of young people who die by suicide need to be more involved and better informed about the coronial process, new research finds.

The three-year project by Victoria University's School of Health and funded by the Health Research Council looked at whānau engagement with coroner services.

Project lead? and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health, Clive Aspin, is with us.

He's in Fiji, where he's attending the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum of the International Association of Suicide Prevention Conference.

And my view was that were they to talk to the whānau, they would get a much, much more robust body of knowledge that they would then add to their decision-making and they would find out much more about the young persons and understand more about the circumstances of their death.

But they weren't doing that.

And so we were fortunate to get funding from the Health Research Council to look further into this conundrum.

And so over the last three years, we've investigated and we've talked to whānau who've been bereaved and we've also talked to coroners.

We're not trying, we are implementing and evaluating a holistic model of care in the current health system.

So this has been supported by a Health Research Council, uh, grant, $1.4 million grant, and it's over four years.

We're in our third year of, um, of implementation.

And, um, we have been applying for about six years to get this grant, and we've had rejections the whole way through, so it was really exciting that the government put their money behind us to, um, to look at therapeutic carbohydrate reduction in our, um, in our health system.