Celebrating our partnership with Sydney Local Health District
The University of Sydney has signed a historic Collaboration Agreement with the Sydney Local Health District.
For the last 136 years, the University and Sydney Local Health district have collaborated to promote, facilitate and encourage health and medical research.
This agreement affirms our commitment to excellence in the pursuit of not only research, but also education, community engagement and health delivery.
Aimed at increasing the interaction of our staff and students, the agreement provides a high-level framework for, among other things: access to facilities and equipment, research integrity, student supervision and placements, and collaboration governance.
A separate agreement has also been executed, bringing together the University, the District, and several affiliated Medical Research Institutes into a common methodology for determining the ownership of Intellectual Property.
The Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence explained that the execution of the agreements “provides a significant platform which formalises at an institutional level what has been an incredibly productive relationship over more than a century”.
Adjunct Associate Professor Vicki Taylor, Executive Director - Sydney Research, further commented that the agreement is a big step toward enhancing the capability of the partnership to increase the pace of research translation to health outcomes and set the agenda for the development of health technologies.
This agreement is an opportunity to showcase the way our organisations work together to transform the way we provide healthcare and have done for more than 135 years. Locally and internationally the Sydney research campus is recognised as a knowledge centre.
Outcomes of the collaboration
We have already seen positive results of the ongoing cooperative relationship between the University and the District, including:
- student placements at hospitals and local clinics
- advancing future healthcare through core research facilities like the Hybrid Theatre
- the launch of the InsideOut Institute for eating disorders
- clinical trials around placental transfusion, aspirin to prevent a second deep-vein thrombosis, and more
- musculoskeletal research into exercise for preventing recurring lower back pain
- patient and family centred care
- District staff accessing core research facilities at the University to share ideas
- joint IP ownership of inventions, where appropriate.
