Men's Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research

Overview

This grant opportunity is a component of the 2025-26 election commitment Strengthening Medicare: Backing Men’s Health and supports components of the National Men’s Health Strategy 2020-30. This activity would provide funding to the Black Dog Institute to action research into men’s mental health and suicide prevention with the Danny Frawley Centre for Health and Wellbeing. The Black Dog Institute would use this research to develop new male-focused digital tools for self-navigated mental health care. The objectives of the grant opportunity are to: • Examine existing and emerging data and trends to understand factors influencing mental health ill health and suicide prevention in men. • Review and enhance Black Dog Institute’s digital tools that support self-guided mental health care and suicide prevention. The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are: • Contributing factors to men’s mental ill health and suicide risk identified • Effective suicide prevention supports that are unique to men identified  • Black Dog Institute’s digital tools enhanced to help men engage in self-navigated mental health care and suicide prevention.  To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.