MRFF – EPCDRI – 2024 Improving Health Outcomes of People with Intellectual Disability Grant Opportunity

Overview

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, in partnership with the health and disability sector and people with lived experience, to develop, optimise and/or evaluate person-centred approaches for preventive health care for people with intellectual disability. Funding in Stream 1 is available as follows: Topic A: projects that focus on oral health Topic B: projects that focus on other types of preventive health. Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): develop and/or evaluate approaches to support health care transitions across life stages for people with intellectual disability, through co-design with the health and disability sector and people with lived experience. Funding in Stream 2 is available as follows: Topic A: projects that focus on the health care transition from paediatric to adult care Topic B: projects that focus on the health care transition from adult to aged care. Topic C: projects where the organisation undertaking the majority of the research is located, and the Chief Investigator A, 50% or more of all Chief Investigators, and all research participants are primarily resident, in a regional, rural, remote or very remote area according to the Modified Monash Model (MM2-7). Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): develop, optimise and/or implement screening or diagnostic tools for mental health and/or physical health issues in people with intellectual disability. Applications to this grant opportunity must propose research that addresses one of the three Streams of research. 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’s website.