DR ED LITTON, DIRECTOR OF ICU RESEARCH, FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL
Spinnaker is at the forefront of trail-blazing research, built on our long history of funding world-class medical discoveries. Our strategy is focused on solutions to the chronic health issues that impact our community the most.
Our growing Western Australian community needs innovative health solutions. We have the talent to deliver life-changing care but there is a gap in funding for trail-blazing research. With community support, Spinnaker aims to initiate funding and grants for novel innovations, treatments and equipment to achieve our core objectives.
local medical and allied health practitioners to solve prevalent health issues confronting the community.
the careers of early researchers.
the gaps in focussed areas within community health.
Transformational Discoveries and Long
Term Health Outcomes.
At Spinnaker, we've made it our mission to improve community health outcomes in Western Australia through investment in ground-breaking innovations and community-to-bench translational medical research.
Addressing the inequities of health outcomes for West Australian men and boys.
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Western Australian men continue to experience poorer health outcomes than women across almost every indicator of physical and mental health and wellbeing. They are overrepresented in early death from heart disease, suicide, diabetes and cancer and live with a total disease burden greater than women. Our research, led by specialists at Fiona Stanley Hospital seeks to prevent early death and life impacting conditions. If we do it together, we can make our men and boys healthier.
Equal access for every child to world-leading public health services.
By working with families, and in partnership with health and wellbeing practitioners, we seek to ensure every child in Western Australia has equal access to world-leading public health services, supported by evidenced based interventions, at the earliest possible time. Our program of comprehensive, translational research will inform policy, impact practice and provide easy, early, adaptable for to adopt healthier lifestyles, maximise the health of their children and minimise the burden of metabolic disease in later life.
Improving patient outcomes through ground-breaking advancements in diagnosis, treatment, and care.
Western Australia is second only to QLD in terms of melanoma incidence across Australia.
Investing in pioneering ideas while facilitating a culture of aspirational innovation in health research.
Facilitating the translation of research to ensure West Australia's public health services are the best in the world.
The more research you do, the more invested you get, and it becomes more and more meaningful.
For the rest of my career, lung cancer will remain the biggest cancer killer of Australians. It kills more women than breast cancer.
The reality is that patients with single-sided deafness go through many issues that are totally ignored in the community.
One core focus of our research is the environment in utero to the first few days of life. It's probably the most crucial period that programs the baby's health for the rest of their life.
Over 150,000 Australians a year are admitted to an intensive care unit. So continuing to foster the best and the brightest is critically important.
In biomedical research, we all have the ultimate goal to help patients and their families.
We offer a variety of research grants, click view grants for more details.
View GrantsCuts to grant funding mean that some promising research never gets funded. Without further support, our community risks losing talented researchers across WA whose ideas and blue-sky thinking have the power to transform our lives. The time to act is now.
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