Current Grant Opportunity View - GO6986

The 2024 Collaborations in Health Services Research grant opportunity is intended to support programs of small-scale, health service-focussed research projects that relate to the health system, conducted in a health service setting, by a collaboration of health services/research organisations. The strategic aim of this grant opportunity is to stimulate health services research to improve health outcomes by increasing collaboration and building research and translation capacity and competitiveness of the health services sector. 

The objectives of this one-off grant opportunity are to provide financial assistance to support:

1. Programs of small-scale research projects identified as important by health services and their communities to improve health care.
2. Partnerships that foster collaboration between researchers, health service providers and end users, including consumers and community.

Funding will be available under two application streams:

• Stream 1: Metropolitan-based (MM1)
• Stream 2: Regional/rural/remote (RRR)-based (MM2-7)*

Applications from existing health care/research collaborations that include at least one research and one health service provider that have a proven track record in co-design and research that delivers health outcomes are encouraged. Applications that address health services and programs to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and/or regional, rural and remote communities are also encouraged.

Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC approved Administering Institutions. A list of NHMRC approved Administering Institutions is available at: 

https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-funding-administering-grants.

Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the 2024 Collaborations in Health Services Research Grant Guidelines. 

This includes (but is not limited to):

• that applications must be a joint submission from an Administering Institution and include at least one research organisation and one health service provider;
• that the CI team should include at least one Chief Investigator (CI) from a health service provider and one CI representing the needs of consumers, community and end-users;
• that a person must not be named as a CI on more than one application submitted to this grant opportunity; and
• for applications to Stream 2*, 50% or more of all CIs must be primarily resident in a Modified Monash Model 2-7 location.

The grant period is 2 years.

$15,000,000.00

From $0.00 to $1,000,000.00

Applications must be submitted electronically using NHMRC’s granting system (Sapphire) unless otherwise advised by NHMRC. 

Minimum data closes at 17:00 ACT local time on Wednesday 28 August 2024.