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Strategic Awards

NHMRC offers various research funding opportunities available under NHMRC Strategic Awards.

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Introduction

Through its strategic awards, the NHMRC supports health and medical research in areas which have been identified as a priority and where there is an unmet need for targeted funding. Strategic awards address priorities identified by the NHMRC as part of its triennial strategic planning process as well as those identified by the Australian Government under its National Research Priorities. They also provide a mechanism by which the NHMRC can respond to opportunities for pursuing innovative projects and national and international collaborations at the frontiers of health and medical research.

Strategic Awards

A healthy Start to Life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Program Grant

Promoting and Maintaining Good Health is one of the Australian Government’s National Research Priorities. Providing A Healthy Start to Life is one goal of this research priority. Recognising the significant life long health gains possible by improving the health of children, the NHMRC will provide up to $7 million over 5 years to support collaborative research grants with the potential to improve the maternal, infant and childhood health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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A Healthy Start to Life for All Australians Strategic Award

This Strategic Award forms part of the National Health and Medical Research Council's response to the Australian Government's National Research Priority Promoting and Maintaining Good Health and its priority goal A Healthy Start to Life. The Program Framwork for this award was developed to complement current government policy and priorities regarding child health.

The major objective of the research funded through this strategic award is to identify and reduce the impact of conditions occurring in adulthood which have their origins in the early stages of life. The award focuses on innovative research which has an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral approach to child health.

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Ageing Well, Ageing Productively Program Grant

This program is an area of National Research Priority, funded jointly by the ARC and the NHMRC. It aims to foster research in to ageing which crosses sectors, research disciplines and institutions to develop an authoritative evidence base to underpin more effective and well informed policy and practice.

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Australian-European Union Health Research Grants

The NHMRC has a limited fund to assist Australian participation in projects selected for funding under the European Commission's Sixth Framework programme. In the call for proposals, the health and medical research areas of interest to the NHMRC are Genomics and biotechnology for health.

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Capacity Building Grants in Population Health and Health Services Research

These Grants will provide flexible support to build groups of excellent population health researchers to pursue broadly based collaborative research activity. The teams will be expected to contribute new knowledge at a leading international level in important areas of health and medical research, develop novel ideas and approaches, tackle problems for which longer term stable funding is essential and provide training and career development opportunities within the team.

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Call for research on H1N1 Influenza 09 to inform public policy

NHMRC is calling for public health and medical research proposals that aim to rapidly inform and advance Australian strategies to prevent, prepare for and respond to a potential H1N1 Influenza pandemic and inform the development of public policy.

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Centres of Clinical Research Excellence

The intent of the Centres of Clinical Research Excellence program is to recognise and reward successful clinical researchers, and expand their ability to produce high quality research, provide high quality clinical research training and translate their research funding into improved health outcomes.

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research – Special Call for Research Applications

This call provides an opportunity for Australian researchers to submit proposals for excellent and innovative research that will generate evidence and increase knowledge in the area of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

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Dementia Research Grants

The Dementia Research Grants Program aims to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers through research into identified gaps in existing applied and translational dementia research.

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Diabetes Vaccine Development Centre

The Diabetes Vaccine Development Centre (the Centre) is a joint initiative of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) and the Australian Government through the NHMRC. In May 2000, JDRF and NHMRC announced $10 million of funding to be equally provided by both parties for the Centre over a three year period.

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General Practice Clinical Research Program Grant

The General Practice Clinical Research Program is a joint initiative between the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Primary Care Division of the Department of Health and Ageing. The Program aims to fund priority-driven research in General Practice that has both clinical and policy relevance and which will make a difference to consumers and their health through changed, cost-effective clinical practice.

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) was established in 2001 to facilitate access to the world's supply of primary scientific data on biodiversity for policymakers, research scientists and the general public.

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Health Services Research Program

This program aims to support research that will increase expertise and capacity in policy and service delivery related research to improve health care, facilitate and develop better collaboration between researchers, policy makers and health service providers, increase linkage between researchers, policy makers and providers and support high quality health services research in identified priority areas.

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Human Frontier Science Program

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) supports international collaborations in basic research focused on complex mechanisms of living organisms.

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International Collaborative Indigenous Health Research Partnership (ICIHRP)

The NHMRC, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) in 2002 established a tripartite partnership to jointly invest in research which would contribute to improved health outcomes and a reduction in health inequalities for Indigenous people in each of the partner countries.

The three partners will call for applications under the ICIHRP grants scheme in February 2009, at which time, all relevant documentation will be made available.

Please note:  Registrations of Interest in this call need to be submitted to the HRC by 5pm on 11 April 2009 (NZ time).

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NHMRC Supported Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (5 years Europe / 4 years Australia)

NHMRC and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory are seeking applications from talented molecular and cell biologists for the NHMRC supported Group Leader position.

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Palliative Care Training Awards Round Three

The purpose of Palliative Care Training Awards is to provide opportunities for Australian researchers to undertake research that is both of major importance in the field of Palliative Care and of benefit to Australian health. Training Awards will provide a vehicle for training in research in Australia to enable Award holders to work on palliative care research projects with nominated advisers. The Training Awards will be offered to a limited number of persons of outstanding ability who wish to make research a significant component of their career.

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Potential Avian Influenza-Induced Pandemic — Call for Urgent Research

This research will rapidly inform and advance Australian strategies to prevent, prepare for and respond to a potential avian influenza-induced pandemic.

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Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia's Social and Economic Fabric Strategic Award

It's program was established by the NHMRC in response to the Australian Government's National Research Priority Goals of Preventive Health Care and Strengthening Australia's Social and Economic Fabric through a program of targeted funding. The program aims to fund innovative research that will generate an evidence base on which policies and programs can be developed to improve the health of socially and economically disadvantaged people.

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Special Program Grants in Type 1 Diabetes

NHMRC and JDRF have established a joint program in Australia to advance research into Type 1 diabetes, funded by Special Program Grants (SPGs) for up to five years. Each Special Program Grant awarded will support a critical mass of investigators, working on a problem of importance to people with Type 1 diabetes.

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