Creating a sustainable and supportive health research environment across rural and remote Australia: a call to action

Laura Alston¹, Lisa McFayden^{2

3}, Tarun Sen Gupta⁴, Warren Payne⁵, James Smith⁶

Affiliations

¹ Deakin Rural Health, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC.
² College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW.
³ Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW.
⁴ College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD.
⁵ Western Alliance, Warrnambool, VIC.
⁶ Flinders Rural and Remote Health NT, Flinders University, Darwin, NT.

Laura Alston et al. Med J Aust. 2023.

. 2023 Aug 7:219 Suppl 3:S27-S30.

doi: 10.5694/mja2.52027.

Laura Alston¹, Lisa McFayden^{2

3}, Tarun Sen Gupta⁴, Warren Payne⁵, James Smith⁶

¹ Deakin Rural Health, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC.
² College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW.
³ Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW.
⁴ College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD.
⁵ Western Alliance, Warrnambool, VIC.
⁶ Flinders Rural and Remote Health NT, Flinders University, Darwin, NT.

No abstract available

Keywords: Health services research; Research support; Rural health services.

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