Our General, Māori, Pacific and Health Delivery Career Development Award funding rounds are open for registrations and applications.

These awards help to foster the health research workforce to advance health and economic outcomes for New Zealand. A range of awards is available to support emerging health researchers undertaking postgraduate research qualifications. In addition, our Health Delivery Research Career Development Awards provide support for health professionals (clinical or non-clinical) and academic health researchers to undertake a funded placement in a health delivery research team, health sector setting, or health delivery policy setting, to foster research supporting direct improvements to the health system.

Further details on these Career Development Awards can be found on Gateway in the People-focused funding, Māori Health Research and Pacific Health Research sections.  

If you have any questions about our Career Development Awards, please contact info@hrc.govt.nz.

The goal of the HRC’s investment in health delivery research is to fund research that directly contributes to a primary outcome of improved health delivery by informing decisions or changes to policy, practice or systems in the New Zealand health and disability sector.

We are pleased to advise that applications for the 2026 Health Delivery Research Career Development Awards will open on 4 June 2025.

This award is an opportunity for health professionals (clinical or non-clinical) and academic health researchers to undertake a funded placement in a health delivery research team, health sector setting or health delivery policy setting. Funding includes salary supplemented by a $20,000 contribution to the host organisation. This grant is designed to directly engage health professionals and researchers on issues of priority for our health system and improve the delivery of healthcare in New Zealand.

Key dates, including the closing and results dates, will be announced on HRC Gateway.

The Health Delivery Research Activation Grants will not be offered this year

The Activation Grants were launched in 2019 as part of a suite of Health Delivery Research funding opportunities. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in high-quality health delivery research proposals across all our funding rounds, and it is timely to focus on longer-term investments that deliver longer term impact and benefit.

We recommend that you refer to the HRC Gateway funding calendar for information on all our funding rounds. Here you will find the upcoming opening, closing and results dates for our various funding opportunities, which are updated as more become available. By clicking on the name of the individual round you are interested in, you will be provided with more information, including eligibility criteria, a brief description of the application process, and who to contact if you have any questions.

Please note that the key dates for this round have changed. The updated dates will be announced in due course.

Registrations for the 2025 NZ-China Biomedical Research Alliance funding round will open on 1 May 2025. We encourage all past applicants to re-apply for this round while we wait for notification of the 2024 funding round results.

At this time, we’re unable to give a definite timeframe for when the 2024 results will be available. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@hrc.govt.nz