Health Impact

NHRMC Investigator Grant Guidelines 2025 describe health impact as:

Improvements in health through new therapeutics, diagnostics, disease prevention or changes in behaviour; or improvements in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, management of health problems, health policy, health systems, and quality of life.

The below examples are taken from the Guidelines, and are not an exhaustive list. Only examples where we have identified a search tool have been included. For a full list of examples, see the Guidelines.

Policy or program adopted

Tool to assist in finding evidence	Help resources
Google Advanced Search	Do an Advanced Search on Google Refine web searches Using the Advanced Search in Google will enable more efficient searching of government and industry, professional and community organisations by using the following strategies: Search by file type - i.e. PDF (documents without intro web page content) Search by domain - i.e. .gov.au (useful for locating government reports) or .org.au (for organisations) Search by region - i.e. Australia (searches Australian websites without specifying a domain) Search by date
Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO)	APO Blog
Overton	Help
Policy Commons
Altmetric Explorer	Finding Metrics: Getting started with Altmetric Explorer (QUT only) Altmetric Explorer training materials Metrics Terminology 101 How to search for specific person's research outputs How to Search Altmetric Explorer: An Introductory Guide for Institutions

A clinical guideline adopted

Tools to assist in finding evidence	Help resources
Australian Clinical Practice Guideline	ACPG FAQs
Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO) e.g. documents mentioning research used for guidelines	APO Blog

International or national practice standards adopted

Tools to assist in finding evidence	Help resources
Australian and International Standards Databases
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Improved service effectiveness

Tools to assist in finding evidence

Help resources

Google Advanced Search

Do an Advanced Search on Google

Refine web searches

Using the Advanced Search in Google will enable more efficient searching of government and industry, professional and community organisations by using the following strategies:

Search by file type - i.e. PDF (documents without intro web page content)
Search by domain - i.e. .gov.au (useful for locating government reports) or .org.au (for organisations)
Search by region - i.e. Australia (searches Australian websites without specifying a domain)
Search by date

Phase I, Phase II and Phase III clinical trials underway or completed

Tools to assist in finding evidence	Help resources
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry Covers trials being undertaken in Australia, New Zealand on the therapeutic areas of pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle, devices, treatment and rehabilitation strategies and complementary therapies.	How to search (ANZCTR)
ClinicalTrials.gov Database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world.	How to Use Search
Other Clinical Trial Registers

Reports (including community and government)

Reports (including community and government)
Tools to assist in finding evidence	Help resources
Google Advanced Search	Do an Advanced Search on Google Refine web searches Using the Advanced Search in Google will enable more efficient searching of government and industry, professional and community organisations by using the following strategies: Search by file type - i.e. PDF (documents without intro web page content) Search by domain - i.e. .gov.au (useful for locating government reports) or .org.au (for organisations) Search by region - i.e. Australia (searches Australian websites without specifying a domain) Search by date
Trove	Advanced Search
Overton	Help
Policy Commons