Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6518

This grant opportunity is the first under the $50.0 million Childhood Mental Health Research Plan, developed by an independent Expert Advisory Panel mid-2023.

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

• Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct large-scale multidisciplinary projects to build knowledge of the biological, environmental, social, cultural, structural, economic, and individual factors that contribute to mental illness in children, and keep children mentally healthy
• Stream 2 (Incubator) conduct small-scale developmental projects to create assessments, treatments, preventions, and/or improve our understanding of the mechanisms of therapeutic change for childhood mental illness and psychological distress:
  • Topic A: for children aged 0-5 years
  • Topic B: in settings where children are cared for and/or whom they are cared by (Eg. at home, in out-of-home care, in learning environments, in the community)
  • Topic C: among First Nations children by accessing the unique knowledges, strengths, and endurance of First Nations communities
  • Topic D: among children with a disability (including psychosocial disability or neurodisability) and/or long-term chronic disease
  • Topic E: among children who have experienced trauma
  • Topic F: among children experiencing emotionally based school avoidance/non-attendance
  • Topic G: for eating disorders (and their prodromes)
  • Topic H: for anxiety disorders (and their prodromes)
  • Topic I: for depression and/or self-harm and/or suicidality (and their prodromes)
  • Topic J: for disruptive behaviour disorders (eg. conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder)

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 website.

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

Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) 2023 Childhood Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

The maximum grant period that can be applied for in each Stream is as follows:

• Stream 1 (TCR): 5 years
• Stream 2 (Incubator): 2 years

$30,000,000.00

From $0.00 to $5,000,000.00

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 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time) on 28 February 2024.

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00 pm (ACT Local Time) on 20 March 2024.