MRFF – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative – 2024 Survivorship Care and Collaborative Research Prioritisation Grant Opportunity
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – 2024 Survivorship Care and Collaborative Research Prioritisation Grant Opportunity will provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:
- Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): develop scalable and sustainable approaches, in partnership with consumers, to improve survivorship care and quality of life for individuals who have survived severe health conditions and their families, careers, and communities.
Research proposals in this Stream must focus on one of the following topics:
- Topic A: Research projects that focus on those who have experienced cancer
- Topic B: Research projects that focus on those who have experienced severe diseases other than cancer
- Topic C: Research projects that focus on those who have experienced severe physical and/or psychological or emotional trauma
- Topic D: Research projects that focus on First Nations people who have experienced a severe health condition
- Topic E: Research projects that focus on culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people who have experienced a severe health condition
- Topic F: Research projects that focus on adolescents and/ or young adults (aged 15-24) who have survived a severe health condition.
- Stream 2 (Incubator): conduct pilot projects co-led with communities that scope and address priority health issues and:
- are conducted with and in communities experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage and with limited opportunity for engaging in research
- are co-produced and/or co-designed with the community
- are in partnership with local health and community service providers
- address health issues and/or access barriers that are a priority for the community by identifying new solutions.
Funding under Stream 2 is available based on the geographic location of the organisation undertaking the majority of the research:
- Topic A: The organisation undertaking the majority of the proposed research is located in, and the Chief Investigator A and 50% or more of all Chief Investigators are primarily resident in, a metropolitan area according to the Modified Monash Model (MM1)
- Topic B: The organisation undertaking the majority of the proposed research is located in, and the Chief Investigator A, 50% or more of all Chief Investigators, and all research participants are primarily resident in, a regional, rural, remote or very remote area according to the Modified Monash Model (MM2-7).
The anticipated outcomes of the research funded by this grant opportunity is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by:
- Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): providing better care to those who have survived serious health conditions
- Stream 2 (Incubator): developing effective approaches for addressing health priorities for communities.
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 (MRFF) is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care’s MRFF website.