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MRFF Coronavirus Research Response - 2020 Rapid Response Digital Health Infrastructure

Tender ID: 424960


Tender Details

Organisation:
Tender #:
GO4051  
Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
2 July 2020
Closing Date:
14 July 2020

Tender Description

⁠⁠⁠The Coronavirus Research Response - 2020 Rapid Response Digital Health Infrastructure grant opportunity was announced as part of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) and is part of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) National Health Plan to support our health system to manage the outbreak of novel coronavirus in Australia. This package provides support across primary care, aged care, hospitals and research, and includes funding from the MRFF for a Coronavirus Research Response comprising vaccine, anti-viral and respiratory medicine research.

Digital health approaches and tools have the potential to fundamentally transform the capacity and speed of the health system to respond to urgent and high-need challenges such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.

For this grant opportunity funding for high priority digital health infrastructure that has the potential to increase the speed and quality of health system responses during acute crises.

Reflecting the complex Australian digital health landscape, applications to this grant opportunity must demonstrate:

  • strong broader applicability (to users, other disciplines, and national scalability)
  • alignment with and an identified priority need within existing digital health systems and investment
  • sustainability.

The anticipated outcome of the research is to promote the application of innovative digital health approaches to enable health systems to rapidly respond to high-need emerging challenges, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. 



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