MRFF – Emerging Priorities and Consumer-Driven Research Initiative – 2026 Improving Health Interventions and Services through Implementation Research Grant Opportunity.

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

  • Stream 1 (Incubator): Conduct co-designed proof of concept or pilot studies to generate evidence of feasibility, affordability, acceptability, and impact of implementation strategies.
  • Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): Conduct small- or large-scale multidisciplinary implementation research focused on improving the adoption, sustainability, and/or scaling of evidence-based health and wellbeing interventions:
    • that are conducted in partnership with health service providers and consumers, and  
    • focussed on one or more priority populations.  

Stream 1 is intended to support early stage, small scale research projects that seek to assess the potential and feasibility of novel strategies to address critical or intractable health issues.

Stream 2 is intended to support projects that progress research that addresses a specific health need.

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

  • Stream 1 (Incubator): Building the evidence base for effective implementation of health interventions.  
  • Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): Improving the effectiveness and quality of health and wellbeing interventions and services through robust implementation research.

This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, and Cancer Australia.

Further information on MRFF is available from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing's MRFF website.

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