Health Translation Queensland (formerly Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners (BDHP)) is the first Advanced Health Research Translation Centre in Queensland, Australia.[1]
The organisation is a collaboration between four hospitals, two universities, two medical research institutes, a primary health care network, and Queensland Health. [2]
Health Translation Queensland's history dates back to 2011, with the establishment of the Mayne Health Science Alliance and Diamantina Health Partners. In 2014, these two bodies came together with Children's Health Queensland in a collaborative arrangement to form the Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners Academic Health Science System.[1][3][4][5]
On 9 June 2017, it was announced Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners had been accredited by the National Health and Medical Research Council as a new Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre.[7]
BDHP changed its name to Health Translation Queensland in November 2021.[8]
The BDHP Brisbane Cancer Conference is held annually in December at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.[9]The conference is convened by Professor Ken O’Byrne, Clinical Director of the Cancer and Ageing Research Program.[10][11]
The BDHP Circulating Tumour Cell Symposium was a single day event that provided up to date coverage of many aspects of tumour research. The event was co-convened by Professor Colleen Nelson, Executive Director of the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland, and Professor Rik Thompson, of Queensland University of Technology's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. The symposium was attended by some 130 delegates from Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland and Griffith Universities, affiliated research institutes, QLD Health, industry and consumer advocacy group representatives, as well as attendees from Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.[13]
