Research Australia announced that ghd is the 2022 recipient of the Advocacy Award, sponsored by AbbVie, for their commitment to breast cancer research and raising awareness of the disease, particularly among younger women. ANDHealth CEO and Managing Director, Bronwyn Le Grice, was recognised as a highly commended finalist in the Advocacy category.

The Advocacy Award recognises the champions of health and medical research that have made a difference by raising community awareness and understanding of the importance of health and medical research.

“I would like to acknowledge the achievements of ghd and all finalists in the Advocacy Category and the other awards. Our health and medical research sector is absolutely critical to the future health and wealth of all Australians, and I applaud Research Australia for showing such leadership with their annual awards program", said Bronwyn.  

Bronwyn created ANDHealth in 2017 to provide commercialisation support to Australia’s digital health researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators, creating a world-leading digital health sector centred in health and medical research and leveraging technology to create companies with global scale, reach and patient impact.  
 
With more than 800,000 patients served, 70 clinical trials and studies undertaken, and over $91.5M of new investment catalysed into the 80 SMEs which have participated in its flagship ANDHealth+ and Masterclass programs, ANDHealth has demonstrated an unprecedented impact.

Bronwyn remains committed to the importance of digital health, and digitally focused health and medical research. Under her direction, ANDHealth leads industry development and advocacy through its annual event series, media outreach, industry reports and policy support, and brings about change through intensive programs that support high-growth-potential companies to commercialise their technologies from idea, through the entire commercialisation pathway to global scale and market uptake.  

"It is an exceptional honour to be nominated and for ANDHealth's work in the health and medical research sector to be acknowledged by Research Australia," she said. "I would also like to thank James Dromey and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Kerryn Butler-Henderson and the entire RMIT University team, the two people and organisations who supported my nomination, and all of ANDHealth’s core partners."