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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 types
Strategic Awards are currently supported by the following processes.
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.
» See more information on the A healthy Start to Life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Grants
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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.
» See more on A Healthy Start to Life for All Australians Strategic Award
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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.
» See more information on the Ageing Well, Ageing Productively Grant
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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.
» See more information on Australian-European Union Health Research Grants
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NEW 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.
» See more information on Capacity Building Grants in Population Health Research
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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.
» See more information on Centres of Clinical Research Excellence
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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.
» See more information on the Special Call for Research Applications Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Strategic Awards
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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.
» See more information on Dementia Research Grants
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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.
» See more information on Diabetes Vaccine Development Centre
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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.
» See more information on General Practice Clinical Research Program Grants
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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..
» See more information on apply for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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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.
» See more information on Health Services Research Program
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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.
» See more information on applying for the Human Frontier Science Program
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International Collaborative Research Grant
The International Collaborative Research Grants (ICRG) Scheme is a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia and the Health Research Council (HRC) of New Zealand. The Scheme is designed to foster collaborative research between the developing countries of the region and both Australia and New Zealand.
» See more information on International Collaborative Research Grant
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NEW 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.
» See more information
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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.
» See more on Palliative Care Training Awards
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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.
» See more on Potential Avian Influenza-Induced Pandemic — Call for Urgent Research
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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.
» See more information on the Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia's Social and Economic Fabric Strategic Award
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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.
» See more information on Special Program Grants in Type 1 Diabetes
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