Members
Together, we're building a stronger research ecosystem
BioGrid’s members help shape, support, and strengthen secure data-driven research across Australia.
We are a member-led collaboration
BioGrid operates on behalf of its member institutions, bringing together health services, universities, research institutes, and other eligible organisations through a shared model for secure, collaborative research independent of government and the corporate sector.
Each member institution is represented through the Member Management Committee, ensuring BioGrid remains responsive to the needs of Australia's research community.
Why become a member?
Membership connects organisations into a trusted national collaboration supporting secure, governed health and medical research.
As a member, your organisation gains access to:
- A connected national research network
- BioGrid's federated data platform
- Established governance frameworks
- Advanced data linkage and integration
- Research technology and data services
- Expert support
This keeps the focus on the value of membership while still reflecting BioGrid's unique capabilities. The more detailed technical information can then live on the individual capability pages, where users expect that level of depth.
Contributing data as a member
Membership gives organisations a supported pathway to connect clinical, research, or registry data to BioGrid and make it available for approved collaborative research.
Importantly, contributing data does not mean giving up control. Member institutions retain governance and custodial oversight of their data, while BioGrid provides the infrastructure and expertise needed to connect, prepare, and manage it securely.
Your organisation retains control
Data remains governed by the institution and its data custodians, who determine how and when it can be used.
BioGrid connects and prepares the data
BioGrid supports extraction, integration, linkage, and ongoing data management across a range of systems and data sources.
Approved researchers gain access
Researchers can only access data through agreed ethics, governance, and study-specific approval pathways.
BioGrid supports member institutions throughout the process, from initial assessment and technical integration through to governed research access.
Member institutions and representatives
Who can become a member
BioGrid is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee with deductible gift recipient status. Its members are health services, universities and research institutes. Becoming a BioGrid member provides access to our unique data governance model incorporating legislative, institutional, custodian and researcher requirements underpinned by:
- Unique evergreen collaboration agreement with over 42 institutions (representing over 81 sites across Australia) covering the management of governance, data access, undertaking projects, publications, intellectual property and commercialisation amongst the collaborators.
- Unique human research ethics framework for national data linkage platform covering systems, methodologies and processes for data linkage, governance, privacy, security and project-specific access in every Australian state and the ACT.
Interested in becoming a member?
Health services, universities, research institutes, professional associations, and foundations are eligible to participate through membership of the BioGrid Australia collaboration.
Data Access Process
Understand how approved research moves from application and governance review through to secure access to BioGrid-connected data.
How BioGrid Works
See how BioGrid connects governance, data, infrastructure, and research pathways across its national collaboration model.