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Australian Rotary Health
Australian Rotary Health is Australia's largest non-government funding body of mental illness research. We also fund research in other health related areas.
The genesis of Australian Rotary Health in 1981 was the mystery of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The Late Ian Scott, from the Rotary Club of Mornington, established Australian Rotary Health to support research into SIDS. As Australian Rotary Health grew so did the vision of medical research possibilities. Supported by Rotarians Australian wide, Australian Rotary Health was soon in a position to sponsor health research in areas that did not readily attract funding.
What would we do without companions and friends?
Australian Rotary Health has a broad vision of health. We are a catalyst for projects that improve the quality of life for people who are least able to assist themselves.
If researchers are the brains of Australian Rotary Health, our Donors, Companions and Friends are the backbone, indeed the lifeblood of our organisation. Without your support, well.... it doesn’t bear thinking about really! So a heartfelt thanks to every Rotarian, Club and District who enable us to continue funding vital health research and education programs.
Not only do we appreciate you; so do the researchers. Professor Michael Good, who has been researching a malaria vaccine for 26 years, put it succinctly when he said
“Rotary understands the importance of research and that persistence is required if we are to achieve important outcomes”.
Professor Good was awarded an Australian Rotary Health/Rotary Club of Hamilton Funding Partner Grant from 2006-2008 and he won the prestigious 2009 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. He is now undertaking pre-clinical trials for a vaccine for malaria and you helped him to achieve this. Imagine a malaria-free world with millions of lives saved each year! Michael Good is very close.
While we fund all health areas our current focus is mental illness. This year we endowed 10 pilot research studies under the new initiative “Mental Health of Young Australians (Birth to 17 Years)”. The project is the first of its kind in Australia. Australian Rotary Health Chairman, Noel Trevaskis, said “the $300,000 spent on funding the pilot research projects is a valuable investment in the health of Australian children”.
Research that saves lives, transforms communities and improves the quality of life for Australians and the world. That’s what we support and we honestly couldn’t do it without you.
Joy Gillett CEO Australian Rotary Health
Donations to Australian Rotary Health are tax deductible and can be made online at: www.australianrotaryhealth.org.au.
http://www.australianrotaryhealth.org.au/Information-About/About-ARH.aspx
