MRFF – Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission – 2024 Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – 2024 Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:
- Stream 1 (Priority areas 1.1 and 1.2, Targeted Call for Research): establish a bold and innovative national consortium involving multi-institutional collaborations, and encompassing multiple geographies and demographics, consisting of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams combining treatment and public health perspectives that will, through a coherent strategy:
- improve the understanding of the mechanisms underpinning effective mental health interventions and then develop new and improved early interventions, and
- improve the understanding of protective factors that reduce the negative impact on mental health from shifts in society and how best to strengthen these in the population.
- Stream 2 (Priority areas 2.1 and 2.2, Targeted Call for Research): establish a national consortium that partners with service providers and people with lived experience, and encompasses multiple geographies and demographics, to develop preventions, interventions, treatments, and models of care, based on the findings from existing epidemiological research.
- Stream 3 (Priority areas 3.1 and 3.2, Incubator): conduct small-scale developmental projects to improve understanding of the key components of:
- Topic A: high-quality mental health care and how these components can be incorporated into optimal personalised care for individuals.
- Topic B: high-quality prevention strategies.
The intended outcome of the research funded by this grant opportunity is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by:
- Stream 1 (Priority areas 1.1 and 1.2, Targeted Call for Research): generating new and improved early interventions, and ways to strengthen the protective factors in the population, to improve and protect mental health.
- Stream 2 (Priority areas 2.1 and 2.2, Targeted Call for Research): generating new and improved preventions, interventions, treatments, and models of care to improve mental health.
- Stream 3 (Priority areas 3.1 and 3.2, Incubator): generating evidence of the key components of optimal models of personalised care and high-quality prevention strategies to improve mental health.
This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
Further information on the MRFF is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care.