In Australia, EMF is the only organisation dedicated to funding innovative, evidence-based emergency medicine research that directly improves clinical practice and delivers significant economic benefits to the healthcare system. Since 2008, EMF has awarded nearly $18m to over 200 research projects. EMF has established a reputation among emergency medicine professionals for supporting high-impact, outcome-driven research with rapid results. In 2019–20, there were 8.2 million presentations to an Australian public hospital emergency department. Our purpose is to improve the care of patients and develop emergency healthcare research capacity nationally. Long term, every Australian will benefit from our research programs.