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Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia's Social and Economic Fabric Strategic Award
The Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia’s Social and Economic Fabric Strategic Award was established in August 2004 to address the National Research Priority goals of Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia’s Social and Economic Fabric through a single program of targeted funding. The decision to adopt an integrated approach to these two priority goals was motivated by the recognition that they contain significant areas of overlap amenable to collaborative study and that many significant factors that are crucial to health and well-being lie outside the traditional health domain.
Stakeholder submissions informed the development of the scope and objectives of the research program and identified issues and researchable questions for which grant applications were invited. A call for submissions by stakeholders was made on 24 and 27 November 2004. A total of 74 submissions were received from a large and diverse group of stakeholders. Submissions for which the NHMRC has received permission to publish can be found at:
The call for research for The Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia’s Social and Economic Fabric Strategic Award was advertised in August 2005, attracting ninety-nine expressions of interest. Sixteen of these were invited to submit a full application and were short listed by the Working Group resulting in eight applications being recommended for funding.
In October 2006, Minister for Health, the Hon Tony Abbott, announced funding for eight innovative projects focusing on social, economic and environmental factors that impact on the health and wellbeing of Australians. The grants cover areas such as wellbeing in early childhood, obesity, breaking cycles of poor health and disadvantage, and environmental factors in disease prevention.
Chief |
Administering Institute |
Project description |
Recommended Funding |
A/Professor Melissa Wake
|
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute |
Preventing early language delay: cluster randomised trial |
$399,382 |
Dr Li Ming Wen |
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney South West Area Health Service |
Early intervention to prevent childhood obesity among a disadvantaged population: a home-based Randomised Controlled Trial |
$650,358 |
Dr Beatrice Loff |
Monash University |
A comprehensive regulatory strategy for obesity prevention in Australia |
$761,184 |
Professor Sue Richardson |
Flinders University |
Changing patterns of work: impacts on physical & mental health & the meditating role of resiliency & social capital |
$1,060,623 |
Dr Stuart Alistair Kinner |
University of Queensland |
PASSPORTS TO ADVANTAGE: Health and capacity building as a basis for social integration |
$1,445,067 |
Professor Richard Bryant |
University of New South Wales |
Enhancing Mental Health in Aboriginal People: Reducing Violence and Developing Resilience |
$1,650,000 |
Prof Adrian Bauman |
The University of Sydney |
Understanding the impact of social, economic and geographic disadvantage on the health of Australians in mid - later life: what are the opportunities for prevention? |
$1,800,000 |
Dr Kylie Ball |
Deakin University |
Preventing obesity among socioeconomically disadvantaged women and children |
$1,945,741 |