Price discounts are more effective than nutrition education in encouraging people to buy healthier foods, according to New Zealand research that is the first of its kind internationally.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) have awarded more than $700,000 following a call for research into the Influenza A (H1N1) 09 virus.

The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) recently announced the 2010 recipients of the Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship.

Research based at The University of Auckland's Liggins Institute has won funding from a joint New Zealand - Singapore research initiative into metabolic disease.

More than NZ$1.3 million has been awarded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR, Singapore) to support research into metabolic disease through a joint research initiative.

Comprehensive recommendations to improve food security and increase physical activity have been made by a University of Auckland-led research consortium.

More than $1 million has been awarded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) and Medsafe to support research aiming to improve the post -market surveillance and monitoring of therapeutic products in New Zealand through the Product Vigilance Joint Venture initiative.

More than $1.1 million has been invested by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) into three international health research collaborations.

20 August 2009 - Recent research from the long-running Christchurch Heath and Development Study at the University of Otago, Christchurch shows that single-sex schooling may help to reduce the gender gap in educational achievement, producing a situation in which boys have a slight advantage over g

One of New Zealand?s leading tobacco control researchers has been appointed to the Chair in Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington.