NIISQ to support The Hopkins Centre: Research for Rehabilitation and Resilience through new major partnership

 

The Hopkins Centre is pleased to announce that from January 2025, the National Injury Insurance Agency, Queensland (NIISQ Agency) will be the major funding partner for The Hopkins Centre: Research for Rehabilitation and Resilience taking over from our partner agency, the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC).

Established in 2017, The Hopkins Centre is a joint initiative between Griffith University and Metro South Health Department of Rehabilitation at Princess Alexandra Hospital, and focuses on topics of relevance to people with brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, persistent pain and other chronic disabling conditions that have lifelong implications for individuals, their families and support services.

The NIISQ Agency is now in partnership with Griffith University to continue the Centre’s highly relevant and impactful research for NIISQ participants and the wider community.

The Centre focuses on translating research in the field of rehabilitation and severe disability and brings clinicians, people with lived experience and professional researchers together to develop practical solutions that can be implemented into policy and practice with real world impact.

NIISQ General Manager Gaenor Walker said the Agency was deeply honoured to embark on this journey with Griffith University.

“The Centre’s dedication to translating research into practical solutions means their research is making a real difference in people’s lives,” Ms Walker said.

“This partnership will undoubtedly lead to the creation of innovative and practical solutions for our participants.”

“As we become the major funding partner, we are excited about the potential of working collaboratively with Hopkins to achieve positive impacts on the lives of so many.”

The Hopkins Centre Director, Professor Timothy Geraghty re-enforced how proud The Centre is to have NIISQ’s ongoing support and commitment to deliver innovative, practical, and sustainable rehabilitation solutions.

“The Hopkins Centre team is very grateful and excited to be moving into a new era in 2025 and beyond, with our new primary funding partner NIISQ,” he said.

“We are very fortunate to have received MAIC’s unwavering support of The Hopkins Centre over the past 8 years and have enjoyed a long-standing close connection with NIISQ in the past, including their generous support of individual research projects. We look forward to building upon this partnership in the future.”

Hopkins Research Director, Professor Tamara Ownsworth confirmed the significant milestone saying, “Our future Hopkins Centre / NIISQ partnership will enable both organisations to fulfil our shared research agenda of improving health and quality of life outcomes for people with serious injury and disability, by finding practical, real-world solutions, while upholding the dignified participation of people with disability.”

Read more about The Hopkins Centre research, projects and how to get involved.