Welcome to The Sax Institute

Stronger Research, Wiser Decisions, Healthier Future

The Sax Institute builds partnerships between researchers and health policy and service delivery agencies for better health.

Through these partnerships, we develop research assets and programs and strengthen policy and practice focused research.

At its foundation the Institute has a coalition of University and research groups undertaking population health and health services research.

Highlights

Evidence for healthy ageing
Australia’s largest study into healthy ageing the 45 and Up Study is collecting blood samples from Study participants as part of a pilot study to inform plans to collect samples from all 260,000 participants in the future. To date projects using the 45 and Up Study data have attracted more than $7.5 million in competitive research funds.

Closing the gap
The Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH ) has been established in four urban Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services across NSW. During the past two years over 1600 children from more than 600 families have joined this long-term study of the health of 2000 Aboriginal children.

Enhancing evidence based policy
The Sax Institute has now completed 67 Evidence Check reviews and many have been used to inform policymaking. Evidence Check is a unique program that connects health policymakers to leading health researchers.