OCHRe News
8 November 2024
Dear OCHRe Members and Friends
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NEWS:
Medical Journal of Australia (MJA)
Indigenous Health Special Issue | July 2025
Special Call for papers |Submission deadline is 23 December 2024.
The MJA is calling for papers for a Special Issue on Indigenous Health that will be published to coincide with NAIDOC week 2025.
For this Special Issue, only submissions that are led by (first or last author) Indigenous authors will be considered for publication.
Details here.
Funding Opportunities
Grant Connect
All Australian Government grant opportunities are advertised on Grant Connect including NHMRC, MRFF, ARC and many other grants.
Below are some current opportunities.
For current list of all grants on Grant Connect here.
Cancer Australia in Partnership
with the NHMRC launches
This grant program focuses on improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to enhance equitable cancer care, build research skills among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, and support local leadership in cancer research. It aims to involve communities in designing research for their benefit and strengthen partnerships between communities, health services, and academic institutions. These are key objectives in both the Australian Cancer Plan and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cancer Plan.
The grant program will facilitate partnerships between organisations working together with community to deliver research activities. Partnerships can be between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led organisations and mainstream organisations (including research groups and cancer services), or between two or more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led organisations.
Each research partnership can apply for a grant between $0.8 to $2.5 million over a maximum 3-year grant period commencing June 2025.
How to apply | Grant program is open to applications via NHMRC's grant management system – Sapphire.
Minimum data | due 5pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 4 December 2024.
Application closes | 5pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 12 February 2025
Detailed instructions on how to apply please refer to the grant guidelines available on GrantConnect.
Further information
To find out more about the grants and scholarships available available under the Improving First Nations Cancer Outcomes funding measure, visit our website here.
National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
NHMRC-Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2024 Grant Opportunity
The NHMRC is providing $3 million to support Australian researchers participating in the joint NHMRC-CIHR 2024 Grant Opportunity. This Grant Opportunity runs through CIHR’s Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) and will fund Canada-Australia joint research teams addressing any of the recognised forms of dementia in Indigenous populations.
The following resources are available on GrantConnect:
NHMRC-CIHR CCNA 2024 Grant Opportunity Guidelines
NHMRC-CIHR CCNA 2024 Peer Review Guidelines
Minimum data due | Wednesday 6 November 2024 17:00 AEDT
Applications Close | Thursday 12 December 2024 17:00 AEDT
A Partner Linkage Tool was created to facilitate connections between researchers (national and international) as well as with knowledge users, including persons with lived and living experience and decision makers.
For further information contact international@nhmrc.gov.au
or visit NHMRC’s website: here.
Partnership Projects 2024
Partnership Projects will support collaborations, within the Australian context, that translate research evidence into health policy and health practice, to improve health services and processes.
Other Instructions:
Estimated Grant Value (AUD) | Up to $1,500,000.00
Minimum data closes | 17:00 ACT local time 13 November 2024
Application closes | 5:00 pm ACT Local Time 27 November 2024
Details here
Centre Research Excellence 2025
The objectives of the CRE scheme are to improve health outcomes and promote or improve translation of research outcomes into policy and/or practice. The CRE scheme will also support researchers in capacity building activities, including in specific areas of need identified by NHMRC.
Minimum data closes | 17:00 ACT local time on 20 November 2024
Minimum data closes | 17:00 ACT local time 20 November 2024
Application closes | 17:00 ACT local time 4 December 2024.
Information about the pilot question, ‘How does your application benefit Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health and contribute to Closing the Gap targets?’ can be found in the Fact Sheet - https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/resources/fact-sheet-benefit-aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-health-question-cre-pilot
For further information, click here.
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
National Critical Research Infrastructure Initiative
The 2024 National Critical Research Infrastructure initiative invests in research infrastructure to ensure Australian researchers find innovative solutions to complex health problems in areas of unmet medical need. This grant opportunity has four streams.
· Stream 1 – Innovation enablers
· Stream 2 – Digitisation of health care
· Stream 3 – Co-investment partnerships
· Stream 4 – mRNA technology enablers
Applications Close | 31 March 2025 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
For further information, click here.
Genomics Health Futures Mission Futures
(GHFM) Grant Opportunity
The MRFF – GHFM | 2024 Genomics Health Futures Grant Opportunity will provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that develop and/or implement novel genomic methods to improve diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, for infectious diseases, common and complex conditions and cancers, and develop and/or implement pharmacogenomic approaches to reduce medication harm and adverse side effects.
This grant opportunity includes six funding Streams.
Grant value | Up to $3,000,000,000
Minimum Data | closes at 5:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 22 January 2025.
Application closes | 5 Feb 2025 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
Details here
New South Wales Health
Aboriginal Health Grants | Closes 13 December 2024
The Aboriginal Heart Health Grants fund high impact Aboriginal-led research. The $5 million in funding is part of the Cardiovascular (CV) Research Capacity Program and aim to:
- improve CV health outcomes for Aboriginal peoples
- increase the number of targeted Aboriginal CV research projects being undertaken in NSW, and
- build the capacity of Aboriginal communities and researchers in CV focused research.
Who can apply
All projects must be led by a Chief Investigator who identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Applications are encouraged from Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, Aboriginal Medical Services, Aboriginal peak bodies, local health districts, specialty health networks and other public health organisations.
Researchers from universities, medical research institutes and not-for-profit organisations are also eligible to apply.
For further information, click here.
