The Australian Health News Research Collaboration

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/571376

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

News media are highly influential in setting health agendas and shaping health policy. The program builds multidisciplinary research capacity between 3 universities, including participation by some of Australia’s leading health journalists, to examine the content and accuracy of news treatments of health issues, how key audiences understand and are influenced by news coverage, how journalists decide which issues to cover and how they approach this coverage. The program aims to improve media literacy and the potency of policy advocacy among health professionals and so improve the quality of health news reporting in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Capacity

Funding Amount: $2,005,437.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ophthalmology and optometry not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Content and discourse analyses | Health commiunication | Mental health, Drugs and Alchohol | Newspapers and Television | Public policy

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