Scientists blast lack of NHMRC funding on climate

Heatwaves are becoming more intense,
more frequent and lasting longer in
 Australia, researchers say. 

Australia's premier medical research funder provides almost no research into climate change impacts on health despite the issue providing "a huge challenge for the health sector", a group of leading scientists say in a new paper.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) pioneered studies on the urgent need for research into global warming's health impacts with a 1991 report. 

Despite that Australia had spent less than one dollar in every $1000 on health funding to the issue since, the researchers including Nobel laureate Peter Doherty said.

Read Peter Hannam’s story in the Melbourne Age - “Scientists blast lack of NHMRC funding on climate.”