Jointly administering the Australian Research Integrity Committee with the Australian Research Council to undertake reviews of institutional processes used to manage and investigate potential breaches of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, 2018. Reviewing and enhancing relevant guidelines and the licensing process relating to the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 and the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002. Supporting the work of committees including the Australian Research Integrity Committee, the Australian Health Ethics Committee and the Embryo Research Licensing Committee. Impact NHMRC's activities lead to impacts on knowledge, health, the economy and society. Information about these impacts is available from: Research Excellence Awards NHMRC Analysis of Australian Health and Medical Research Publications NHMRC Research Translation Symposium Impact Case Studies Corporate plans and Annual Reports Organisation and leadership NHMRC is, formally, a council consisting of the Commonwealth, state and territory chief medical officers, as well as persons with expertise in a variety of areas including: public health public health research and medical research issues ethics relating to research involving humans and animals the health needs of Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders consumer issues (such as on community involvement in clinical trials) business health care training professional medical standards the medical profession and post‑graduate medical training the nursing profession. This Council advises the chief executive officer (CEO) and is supported by the Office of NHMRC. Committees Section 35 of the NHMRC Act 1992 allows the Minister for Health to establish Principal Committees to assist the council to carry out any of its functions. Two such committees are required by the Act: a Research Committee to advise and make recommendations to the council on the application of the Medical Research Endowment Account, and on matters relating to medical research and public health research the Australian Health Ethics Committee to advise the council on ethical issues relating to health and to develop and give the Council human research guidelines. Section 39 of the Act enables the CEO to establish working committees to help carry out the functions of the CEO, the council or a Principal Committee. Peer Review Panels are the most common type of working committee established by the CEO. History In May 1923, the Australian Government called a Premiers' Conference "to devise measures for the co-operation of the Commonwealth and the States and of States with States and to provide uniformity of legislation and administration