Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6029

The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support Australian medical research and medical innovation projects that:

• Stream 1: develop and/or test the implementation of interventions for improving health self-efficacy for:
  • consumers with long term diseases and conditions, and/or
  • one or more Priority Populations.

• Stream 2: use citizen science methodologies where citizens and scientists use web-based platforms and digital tools to co-create health knowledge that has practical implications for improving health outcomes and/or improving consumer experiences of health care, whilst increasing consumer understanding of, and consumer involvement in, research.

The intended outcomes of the research funded by this grant opportunity is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by:

• Stream 1: developing evidence-based interventions that allow consumers to develop stronger health self-efficacy in priority areas (i.e. those with long term diseases and conditions, Priority Populations) to improve the quality of life and health of consumers
• Stream 2: co-creating new health knowledge with consumers that has practical implications for improving health care, and, as a result of their participation, increases consumer knowledge about research.

Applicants to this grant opportunity must propose research that addresses one of the two Streams of research.

This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care’s website.

Applications will only be accepted from approved MRFF Eligible Organisations. A list of approved MRFF Eligible Organisations is available from the GrantConnect GO Documents and from the MRFF Eligible Organisations List on the NHMRC website.

Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative – 2023 Consumer-Led Research Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

The maximum grant duration is 3 years.

$10,000,000.00

From $0.00 to $1,000,000.00

Applicants are advised to read the Grant Guidelines thoroughly and liaise with the MRFF Eligible Organisation that will submit the application to identify any specific requirements that the Organisation might have.

Applications must be submitted electronically using NHMRC’s online granting system (Sapphire).

Minimum Data closes at 5:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 17 May 2023

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 07 June 2023.