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Australian Rotary Health

Australian Rotary Health - Supporting healthier minds, bodies and communities through research, awareness and education.

The concept of Australian Rotary Health is to raise donations and invest this money to provide grants for worthy research projects in the medical and health arenas.

Australian Rotary Health is Australia's largest non-government funding body of mental illness research. We also fund research in other health related areas. 

The genesis of Australian Rotary Health in 1981 was the mystery of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).  The Late Ian Scott, from the Rotary Club of Mornington, established Australian Rotary Health to support research into SIDS.  As Australian Rotary Health grew so did the vision of medical research possibilities.   Supported by Rotarians Australian wide, Australian Rotary Health was soon in a position to sponsor health research in areas that did not readily attract funding. 

 Australian Rotary Health has a broad vision of health.  We are a catalyst for projects that improve the quality of life for people who are least able to assist themselves.

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Update on Polio.

Kick Polio out of Africa video.

I n a video message to Rotarians, Bill Gates, cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, thanked Rotarians for their hard work in the effort to eradicate polio and congratulated Rotary for surpassing the halfway point in meeting Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge.

"The work you're doing to raise funds for the program is critical, especially given the tight government budgets and increasing costs for a very aggressive polio program," Gates said. "Your work as advocates is also very important. We need to keep this fight high on the world's list of priorities."

Click on the link below to see a timeline of how Polio has developed and how Rotary is being joined by Bill and Melinda Gates with their foundation to help rid our world of POLIO.

http://www.rotary.org/en/ServiceAndFellowship/Polio/Timeline/Pages/ridefault.aspx

Click here to listen to Bill Gates talk on Polio Eradication 

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