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MRC Strategic Plan 2009-2014
Over the last year, the MRC has been in conversation with its major stakeholder groups to review and evaluate its strategic direction. Discussions with the MRC’s Council, Strategy Board, its research boards and overview groups have reflected on how the MRC can be best positioned to deliver its mission to policy-makers, the general public and the healthcare, life science, devices and medical engineering industries. This strategy defines the MRC’s distinctive role in contributing to faster and more effective ways for medical research to flourish, at all stages – from working to understand the fundamental science prior to having specific health questions in mind, to tackling some of the most pressing health issues facing society. Read the foreword by Chairman Sir John Chisholm and Chief Executive Sir Leszek Borysiewicz.
The 2009-2014 MRC Strategic Plan, set out in this section, takes the theme of Research Changes Lives, emphasising the impact that world-class research has on improving the health and wellbeing of society. Research Changes Lives sets the path for delivering better health and wellbeing through developing prevention interventions, new treatments for diseases, producing well-founded policy guidance for research governance and ethics, and maintaining excellence in the basic research that underpins these activities.
These strategic aims, set out in more detail in the above sections, explain how the strategy will drive progress in support of the MRC’s mission, and deliver measurable impact of the outcomes of research. Each aim follows a hierarchical structure, with objectives to outline the goal, information about the current situation, the future desired scenario and an explanation of how we will reach this goal.
