Strategy & governance

Australian Centre for Health Access (ACHA) is a social enterprise of RDN – The Charity for Health Access. 

Our principles

1. Vision first – Every project must help create fair and lasting health access.
2. Trading for impact – We provide useful products and services to fund our work, so we rely less on grants.
3. Reinvestment – Any profit is put straight back into community-led research and innovation.
4. Social accountability – Our research and how it’s done is guided by community input.
5. Collaboration – We work in partnership to achieve more together.
6. Society influence – We explain our work simply so more people can understand and support better health access. 

Governance  

The RDN Executive team is responsible for implementing ACHA’s policy and priorities as determined by the RDN Board of Directors. The ACHA General Manager is responsible for developing and delivering ACHA's Business plan on behalf of the RDN Executive Team.  

Research integrity and ethics  

ACHA aligns with National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) standards and Indigenous ethical standards. ACHA also prioritises community involvement in the research process from conception to delivery.