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Connect with WAHTN
WAHTN brings together researchers, health services, consumers, organisations and partners to strengthen research translation across Western Australia.
Whether you are looking for training, expertise, collaboration opportunities, consumer involvement support or ways to connect with the wider health research community, WAHTN can help you find the right pathway.
FIND YOUR PATHWAY
How can WAHTN support you?
Different people engage with WAHTN in different ways. Choose the pathway that best describes you.
I’m a researcher
Build your skills, strengthen your projects and connect with the expertise, resources and people that can help your research achieve greater impact.
Build Research Education & Capability
Develop core translation skills through specialized workshops and courses.
Embed Implementation Science
Move evidence into healthcare practice using tested frameworks and expert advice.
Involve Consumers Meaningfully
Embed lived experience into your research design from inception to delivery.
Access Clinical Trials Support
Tap into methodological expertise, biostatistics, and trial design frameworks.
Explore Statewide Opportunities
Find funding announcements, shared equipment, and events in one place.
Collaborate Across Health Services
Partner with clinical leaders to address real-world health priorities.
I’m a health professional or health service
Turn health service challenges into researchable questions and connect with the expertise needed to develop, test and implement practical solutions.
Address Health Service Priorities
Connect clinical needs with experienced academic partners across WA.
Strengthen Workforce Capability
Build evidence-based practice and research skills across your team.
Adopt Implementation Frameworks
Implement sustainable service improvements supported by implementation science.
Enhance Clinical Trial Delivery
Access trials infrastructure, training, and operational guidance.
Engage Patients in Service Design
Include consumer voices in service improvement and clinical research.
Access Sector Knowledge
Share and discover health research resources across WA health entities.
I’m a consumer or community member
Bring your lived experience, perspectives and priorities into health and medical research.
WAHTN supports meaningful consumer and community involvement so that research is more relevant, inclusive and responsive to the people it aims to benefit.
Share Your Lived Experience
Join research steering committees, focus groups, and advisory panels.
Attend Community Conversations
Participate in open discussions about future health research priorities.
Guide Research Design
Help researchers understand patient perspectives and community needs.
Influence Decision-Making
Contribute as an active partner in ongoing research projects across WA.
Access Free Training
Build your confidence and knowledge around how medical research works.
I represent an organisation
Connect your organisation with WAHTN’s statewide network and strengthen your organisation’s research capability, collaboration and research translation activities.
Build Institutional Capacity
Provide staff with accredited research translation and education pathways.
Implement Best Practice CCI
Adopt organizational standards for meaningful consumer involvement.
Promote Your Opportunities
Share training programs, events, and tools with the statewide network.
Access Cross-Sector Expertise
Connect institutional teams with specialized leaders across the network.
Drive Translation Initiatives
Lead systemic initiatives that bridge academic research and healthcare delivery.
I want to collaborate with WAHTN
Many of WAHTN’s strongest initiatives begin by bringing together people and organisations with complementary expertise.
We welcome opportunities to explore collaborations that strengthen research translation, address health service priorities and build research capability across Western Australia.
Translation & Implementation
Large-scale implementation projects addressing major health challenges.
Systemic Health Priorities
Strategic programs targeting high-priority public health issues.
Statewide Capability Building
Multi-institutional education and workforce development initiatives.
Consumer Partnership Models
Broad scale community engagement strategies for health systems.
National Clinical Trial Networks
Integrated trial platforms connecting WA to national opportunities.
One network. Multiple ways to connect.
The pathways above are supported through WAHTN’s specialist platforms, programs and initiatives.
Whether you want to build research capability, involve consumers, find resources, strengthen implementation or access clinical trials support, these are the places to start.
Discover our platforms
Practical pathways into the network.
Find training, involve consumers, strengthen clinical trials and access implementation support through WAHTN’s connected platforms.
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RETProgram
Research education and training for Western Australia’s health research workforce.
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Knowledge Hub
Search courses, events, guidance and resources from across the state.
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Consumer & Community Involvement
Support for meaningful involvement of lived experience in research.
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Clinical Trials Enabling Platform
Connections and capability for high-quality clinical research across WA.
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Implementation Science
Resources and expertise to help put evidence into routine practice.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
We can help you find the right connection
Tell us what you are trying to achieve, the challenge you are working on or the type of support you are looking for, and we can help connect you with the most relevant part of the WAHTN network.
WORKING TOGETHER FOR GREATER IMPACT
Research has greater impact when the right people come together.
WAHTN connects researchers, health services, consumers and organisations to strengthen research translation and help create better health and healthcare for Western Australians.