Building the evidence base to address health inequalities

The Australian Health Inequalities Research Collaboration (HIRC) was established by the Commonwealth Government in 1999. In the July 2001 issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin (Volume 12, Number 7), Dixon and Sibthorpe, from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, reviewed the work of HIRC in its first 18 months. Here we provide an update of its activities.