8 May 2020
Professor Andrew Jull
Email: [FYI request #12700 email]
Tēnā koe Andrew
Official information request
Further to our letter on 29 April 2020, please find below the response of the Health
Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to your following request under Official
Information Act.
Please make available the research titles along with the names of the principal
investigators of all randomised controlled trials funded, co-funded, or partly
funded by the HRC either as programmes, projects, or feasibility grants, since
the beginning of 1999 (or from the inception of the funding opportunity if the
funding opportunity was not available from 1999).
Please find attached an excel spreadsheet, containing our best endeavour to identify all
HRC funded, co-funded or partially funded, randomised controlled trials, either as
programmes, projects or feasibility grants, since 1999. Please note that while the HRC
has confidence in the data from 2011 to date, the data from 1999 – 2010 were obtained
through keyword searches from our database. These keywords include
clinical trials,
improve outcome, randomised controlled trial, randomised trial, RCT, cluster,
effectiveness, improving outcome, intervention, and treatment. The reason being that
there is no classification criterion that can be applied to extract this information prior to
2011.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to seek an investigation and
review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information about how to make a complaint
is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi
Professor Sunny Collings
Chief Executive
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