Award category spotlight: Rural/Remote Health Innovator of the Year Award

Nominations are open for the third National Rural and Remote Health Awards hosted by RDN's Rural Health Pro as part of Rural Health Month in November. With ten categories open for nomination, this week we are shining a spotlight on the Rural/Remote Health Innovator of the Year Award.

The Rural/Remote Health Innovator of the Year Award recognises an individual or team that has developed or implemented an innovative approach, or published research, addressing a challenge unique to rural and/or remote health.

Mandatory criteria:

• Nominee is a team or individual.
• Demonstrate cultural responsiveness.
• Activities must have taken place during the period July 2024 - June 2025.
• In areas designated between MM3-7 of the Modified Monash Model classification system. 

All rural, remote and regional communities now have the opportunity to showcase this work and the #ruralpositive stories that can be found in rural and remote health by nominating today.

To learn more about the mandatory criteria and to nominate, click here.

Presentation of the Awards will take place on Ngunnawal country at the National Press Club of Australia, in Canberra, on Wednesday 5 November 2025.

Read more about the 2025 National Rural & Remote Health Awards.

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Read about previous winners:

• 2023 winner: Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) - Electronic Health Record’s Steering Committee
• 2024 winner: Yarning up After Stroke (YuAS) - Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), NSW