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In October 2023, the Ministry of Health | Manatū Hauora launched its Research and Evaluation Fund. This internal fund enables a strategic approach to generating evidence that aligns with government priorities and gives effect to the health sector principles in Section 7 of the Pae Ora Act 2022.
It also contributes to a learning health system through its processes, and ultimately, the evidence products it will generate. This supports evidence-based policy and decision-making which will contribute to improved health outcomes for all New Zealanders.
The Ministry’s Evidence, Research & Innovation | Te Pou Whakamārama directorate administers and supports the Fund.
Enabling learning and evidence-based decision making
The Fund has been designed and implemented to achieve the overarching strategic objective of contributing to a learning health system. This objective will be achieved by intentionally focusing on five connected pathways to enable learning and evidence-based decision-making:
- ensuring research and evaluation investments are focused on Ministry and government strategic priorities
- connecting projects and teams across the Ministry
- embedding evidence generation within our work
- growing capacity and capability across the research and evaluation life cycle at the Ministry
- collaborating with external partners to support a cohesive evidence system.
Funded projects
Projects receiving funding often involve a partnership between Ministry directorates and other organisations or community groups across the health and disability system.
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Drug and Substance Checking Legislation |
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Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan |
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Allied Health - Care Capacity Demand Methodology (CCDM) pilot |
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Showing impact and innovation: Māori-led primary-care delivery at the Porirua Health Hub |
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Measures of Pae Ora |
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A Māori Health research agenda |
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Climate and Health Vulnerability and Adaption (V&A) assessment |
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Health of Disabled People Outcomes Framework |
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Enabling evidence-informed policy to address inequities and the harm that results from the sub-optimal use of medicines |
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Improving the quality of Pacific peoples’ health data |
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Exploring the experiences and impact of vaping among Pacific youth in New Zealand Pacific Health Team |
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Proportion and number of cancer cases (+/- deaths) attributable to modifiable exposures in New Zealand |
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Āti Awa Toa Hauora Partnership Board Whānau Voice data storage and protection solutions |
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Investigating capture-recapture as a tool for estimating prevalence and bias in administrative data: A proof of concept estimating prevalence of Gout |
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Evaluation of the Fund
Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Fund is another pathway for learning. It is crucial to its improvement, and to our understanding of how the Fund is, or not, meeting its overarching strategic objective of contributing to a learning health system. In the early stages of the evaluation, we have looked at Fund processes and documents, including what worked well, what didn’t work well, and improvement suggestions. Evaluation activities will continue, with an increasing focus on outcomes and impact over time.
