WA academic receives FHRI funding boost for police injury prevention research

Edith Cowan University researcher, Dr Myles Murphy has been awarded $1.7 million to conduct research into injury prevention for police recruits, including co-designing and implementation of a sustainable injury prevention program for the WA Police Force.

This project aims to improve workforce health and reduce healthcare costs associated with injuries in the police force.

The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s Major Research Application Support (MRAS) program provided an in-principle cash commitment of $0.6 million to Dr Murphy to support an application to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) which led to Dr Murphy winning an NHMRC Partnerships Project grant of $1.1 million.

The FHRI Fund MRAS program provides cash commitments for applications to relevant major competitive research funding programs (External Programs) that explicitly require co-funding.

MRAS aims to promote high-quality research, enable opportunities for the translation of research findings into new knowledge and improved human health and wellbeing and enhance Western Australia’s standing as a leader in health and medical research.