The New Zealand government is to provide additional funding for health research and technology commercialisation in its 2016 budget.
The announcement, made ahead of the full 2016 budget due on 26 May, commits NZ$97 million to the Health Research Council for the next four years.
In a statement, science minister Steven Joyce said that this represented a 56 per cent increase between 2016 and 2020. The funding will in part be targeted at improving longitudinal health studies, the ministry said in a statement on 17 May.
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