Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation

What Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation does

Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation (RHRF) is the dedicated research funding arm of Ramsay Health Care, Australia's largest private hospital network. Established in 2017 and headquartered in St Leonards, Sydney, RHRF operates as a non-profit foundation administering grant programs that fund healthcare research conducted across Ramsay's network of 20+ clinical trial sites. The foundation supports research in cancer, mental health, cardiovascular disease, orthopaedic surgery, and musculoskeletal injury, and in 2025 expanded its scope to include a Social Determinants of Health Innovation Grant targeting women, regional/rural communities, and people aged over 60. Funding flows from the Paul Ramsay Foundation, with individual grants of up to $400,000 per project under the flagship Translational Challenge Grant and Collaborative Research Request programs.

RHRF's core product is the REGGS (Research Ethics, Governance and Grants System) portal, a cloud-based platform that streamlines submission and tracking of ethics applications, governance approvals, and grant applications across Ramsay facilities. The foundation operates two independent Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) for ethics review, a National Research Unit that handles compliance, and a Consumer Engagement Database that connects patients with lived experience to research opportunities. Research consultations provide biostatistics support, grant writing guidance, and ethics/governance advice to Ramsay accredited practitioners. Governance and ethics review fees generate a secondary revenue stream, with commercially sponsored research charged $5,000 per application and Ramsay staff/accredited specialists conducting unfunded research charged $0.

The foundation serves a tightly defined customer base: Ramsay Health Care accredited practitioners, visiting medical officers, nurses, and external researchers conducting studies at Ramsay facilities. Its customer base also extends to university research partners running collaborative multi-site studies that include Ramsay facilities. Grant applicants are typically clinical researchers and healthcare professionals seeking both funding and the clinical site access, ethics approvals, and governance support that RHRF bundles together. Applications are submitted through the REGGS online portal, with mid-funnel engagement driven by bi-monthly Clinical Trials Network and RHRF newsletters. The foundation's mandate is mission-driven rather than revenue-driven, with cost recovery through modest governance fees rather than commercial monetization.

Name

Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation

Legal name

Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation

Website

https://ramsayhealth.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation is a non-profit research funding arm of Ramsay Health Care that administers grants up to $400,000 per project, operates the REGGS ethics and governance portal, and supports clinical researchers conducting studies across Ramsay's 20+ Australian hospital sites.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Research Funding

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Healthcare research funding
• Clinical trials management
• Research grants administration
• Medical research ethics
• Translational health research

Headquarters

HQ city

St Leonards

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Grants distributed (Personnel), Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Research Grants Funding: RHRF funds research projects through grant programs including Translational Challenge Grant (up to $400,000 per project) and Collaborative Research Request (up to $400,000 per project for up to five years). Funding is sourced from the Paul Ramsay Foundation and distributed to researchers conducting studies in Ramsay facilities and partner organizations.

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Core offering

Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation (RHRF) funds healthcare research through competitive grant programs (Translational Challenge Grants, Collaborative Research Requests, and Social Determinants of Health Innovation Grants) and provides supporting services including research ethics and governance review, biostatistics consultations, and grant writing assistance. It operates the REGGS online portal to manage research applications and leverages Ramsay Health Care's network of 20+ clinical trial sites across Australia.

Product overview

Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation (RHRF) operates as a research funding and support organization within Ramsay Health Care's ecosystem. The core product offering is the REGGS (Research Ethics, Governance and Grants System) online portal, which provides end-to-end management of research ethics applications, governance approvals, and grant submissions. Supporting this platform are the Ramsay Research & Development Network spanning 20+ clinical trial sites nationwide, the RHRF Grants Program offering Translational Challenge Grants and Collaborative Research Requests, Research Consultations providing biostatistics and grant writing support, and the Consumer Engagement Database connecting patients and community members to research opportunities. Together, these products form an integrated research support ecosystem enabling researchers to conduct clinical trials and studies across Ramsay facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Translational Challenge Grant (TCG): Flagship grant program of RHRF driving research that tackles root causes of health inequality by funding projects exploring impact of education, socioeconomic status, lifestyle factors and environment.
• Collaborative Research Request (CRR)
• Social Determinants of Health Innovation Grant

Products and services

• RHRF Grants Program Competitive grant funding program awarding up to $400,000 per project to researchers conducting healthcare studies at Ramsay Health Care facilities and partner institutions, covering cancer, mental health, cardiovascular disease, orthopaedic surgery, musculoskeletal injury, and social determinants of health.
• Translational Challenge Grant (TCG) Flagship grant program providing up to $400,000 per project for research tackling root causes of health inequality, requiring projects to include social determinants of health and be undertaken at both Ramsay and non-Ramsay sites.
• Collaborative Research Request (CRR) Grant program providing up to $400,000 per project for joint research projects applying for NHMRC, MRFF, ARC, or CRC grants, requiring both Ramsay and non-Ramsay facilities and commitment to improving social disadvantage.
• Social Determinants of Health Innovation Grant Grant program focusing on health issues affecting women, regional and rural communities, and people aged over 60, requiring involvement of Ramsay Health Care facilities.
• Research Consultations Personalized research support services for Ramsay accredited practitioners and staff including biostatistics consultation (first two one-hour consultations free), RHRF grant writing consultation, and ethics and governance consultation.
• Ramsay Research and Development Network National clinical trials network spanning more than 20 sites across Australia, supporting clinical trials and collaborative studies with universities, companies, and individual researchers to advance patient care.
• Research Governance and Ethics Review Research governance and ethics review services administered through two independent Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) and the National Research Unit, with published fees for commercially sponsored research, clinical registries, investigator-initiated studies, and annual administration.

Quantifiable outcome

• Almost 60% of Ramsay Australia hospitals have achieved the target of reducing desflurane use to less than 5% of total anaesthetic gas use

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• OzHarvestminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood rescue charity partnership at Joondalup Health Campus where unopened, packaged food items left on patient trays are donated to people experiencing food insecurity in the local community. Partnership reduces food waste while supporting community nutrition.
• Marr MooditjminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCadetship program partnership helping guide and empower the next generation of Aboriginal health professionals. Ramsay's Aboriginal Liaison Officers participate in mentoring activities through this partnership.
• National Breast Cancer FoundationminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCharity partner for the annual Ramsay Health Care Triathlon Pink series which raises funds for breast cancer research. Ramsay employees participate in the event series supporting this foundation.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wellcome Trust: UK-based global charitable foundation that funds health research at significant scale. Comparable as a peer grantmaking model in health research, though operating at materially larger scale and global rather than domestic footprint.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Global philanthropic foundation with a major health research funding portfolio. Comparable as a large-scale private research grantmaking body whose Social Determinants of Health orientation overlaps with RHRF's emerging focus.
• Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF): Australian Government fund established to provide major sustained investment in health and medical research. Comparable as a larger funding counterpart that RHRF grant applicants frequently co-apply to via the Collaborative Research Request pathway.

Direct peers

• National Heart Foundation of Australia: Non-profit that funds cardiovascular research and advocacy across Australia. Directly comparable to RHRF's cardiovascular disease grant priority area and shares the model of distributing research grants to academic and clinical investigators.
• Cancer Council Australia: Australia's peak national non-profit cancer control organisation, which funds cancer-specific research through grants and fellowship programs. Comparable as a disease-focused research grantmaking body with national reach in Australia.
• Minderoo Foundation: Large Australian philanthropic foundation funding health, research, and social initiatives. Comparable as an Australian private foundation that channels philanthropic capital into health and social determinants research.
• The George Institute for Global Health: Australia-headquartered medical research institute focused on chronic disease and injury. Peer as a translational health research organisation operating across multiple sites with both research execution and funding functions.
• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Australia's principal government health and medical research funding agency. NHMRC is the closest direct peer to RHRF as both organisations award competitive health research grants across overlapping disease areas within Australia.
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI): Australia's largest child health research institute, conducting and funding paediatric medical research. Peer given similar research funding-and-execution model in the Australian hospital-adjacent research landscape.

Emerging players

• Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research: Western Australia-based medical research institute focused on cancer and chronic disease. Comparable as a regional Australian health research organisation, though smaller and less network-distributed than RHRF.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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