Minister for Medical Research (New South Wales)

The Minister for Medical Research is a minister in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities which included medical research in New South Wales, Australia.

Minister for Medical Research
Incumbent David Harris since 5 April 2023
Style	The Honourable
Nominator	Premier of New South Wales
Appointer	Governor of New South Wales
Inaugural holder	Frank Sartor (as the Minister for Science and Medical Research)
Formation	2 April 2003

History

The New South Wales government was involved in medical research since 1871 with the establishment of the position of Analytical Chemist.^[1][2] The NSW Medical Research Council was established on 18 September 1946 with objectives that included (1) carrying out a survey of medical research being conducted; (2) advising the government as to the expenditure of money upon medical research and the merits of reputed cures or methods of treatment. The Council however ceased to operate within a year of its establishment.^[3]

Medical Research was not represented at a portfolio level until 2003 with the creation of the portfolio of Science and Medical Research. The issues within the portfolio included gene technology; prohibition of human cloning and regulation of research on human embryos; access to Australia’s genetic and biochemical resources; bioethics; and spinal cord injury.^[4] The portfolio was combined with the Health portfolio in 2019 in the second Berejiklian ministry, named Health and Medical Research.^[5] The portfolio returned to Health in the second Perrottet ministry.^[6]

List of ministers

Title	Minister [6]	Party		Ministry	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
Minister for Science and Medical Research	Frank Sartor		Labor	Carr (4) Iemma (1)	2 April 2003	2 April 2007	4 years, 0 days
	Verity Firth			Iemma (2)	2 April 2007	5 September 2008	1 year, 159 days
	Tony Stewart			Rees	8 September 2008	4 November 2008	57 days
	Jodi McKay			Rees Keneally	4 November 2008	28 March 2011	2 years, 144 days
Minister for Medical Research	Jillian Skinner [a]		Liberal	O'Farrell Baird (1)	3 April 2011	2 April 2015	3 years, 364 days
	Pru Goward			Baird (2)	2 April 2015	30 January 2017	1 year, 303 days
	Brad Hazzard [a]			Berejiklian (1)	30 January 2017	23 March 2019	4 years, 325 days
Minister for Health and Medical Research				Berejiklian (2) Perrottet (1)	2 April 2019	21 December 2021
Minister for Medical Research	David Harris		Labor	Minns	5 April 2023	incumbent	2 years, 39 days

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Politics portal

• List of New South Wales government agencies
• Minister for Medical Research (Victoria)

Notes

1. Concurrently held the Health portfolio.