MRFF EPCDRI - 2023 Childhood Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity
Tender ID: 540361
Tender Details
Tender Description
This grant opportunity is the first under the $50.0 million Childhood Mental Health Research Plan, developed by an independent Expert Advisory Panel mid-2023.
The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:
Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct large-scale multidisciplinary projects to build knowledge of the biological, environmental, social, cultural, structural, economic, and individual factors that contribute to mental illness in children, and keep children mentally healthy
Stream 2 (Incubator) conducts small-scale developmental projects to create assessments, treatments, preventions, and/or improve our understanding of the mechanisms of therapeutic change for childhood mental illness and psychological distress:
- Topic A: for children aged 0-5 years.
- Topic B: in settings where children are cared for and/or whom they are cared by (E.g., at home, in out-of-home care, in learning environments, in the community)
- Topic C: among First Nations children by accessing the unique knowledges, strengths, and endurance of First Nations communities.
- Topic D: among children with a disability (including psychosocial disability or Neurodisability) and/or long-term chronic disease.
- Topic E: among children who have experienced trauma.
- Topic F: among children experiencing emotionally based school avoidance/non-attendance.
- Topic G: for eating disorders (and their prodromes)
- Topic H: for anxiety disorders (and their prodromes)
- Topic I: for depression and/or self-harm and/or suicidality (and their prodromes)
- Topic J: for disruptive behaviour disorders (e.g. conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder)
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 is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care website.
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
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