Our culture

At SAHMRI, our vision is to transform health and medical research into better health outcomes for the community. This vision can only be achieved through our teams of dedicated, passionate and talented people who work hard to achieve excellence in what they do.

Health and medical research is an incredibly rewarding profession and at SAHMRI you will have access to state-of-the-art equipment and have the opportunity to work with world-renowned researchers from around the world.

Our culture is demonstrated through our values of:

Excellence – be the best you can be

Courage – take initative, be adventurous, creative and bold

Imagination – challenge conventional thinking and pursue novel, ground breaking ideas

Integrity – act fairly, ethically and respectfully

Teamwork – collaborate openly and respectfully

Equity and Diversity – embrace equity, diversity and reconciliation

We recognise that we can get more out of people through encouraging imagination, to challenge conventional thinking and pursue novel and ground-breaking ideas. We expect our people to be courageous and take initiative, be adventurous, creative and bold. Through our strong teamwork approach, we expect our people to collaborate openly and inclusively with one another, always acting with fairness, integrity and respect. We also have close collaborations with other industry partners, such as the Universities and other Research organisations within South Australia.

Over the coming years, SAHMRI is set to experience significant growth as we continue to work towards meeting the demands for health and medical research for South Australia and work on ground-breaking research for the health and medical industry as a whole.

Now is an exciting time to join SAHMRI as we continue on the journey to become recognised as a world-class health and medical research institute which fundamentally improves the quality of life for all people through tangible health outcomes.

So go ahead, take the next step in your career.

Work with us at SAHMRI.

Professor Steve Wesselingh

Executive Director