MRFF – EPCDRI – 2024 Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause 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: identify and/or evaluate the physical, emotional and/or psychological impacts of fertility treatment and its outcomes on prospective parents.  Stream 2: conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project, co-designed with consumers, to identify the barriers and enablers to, and impact of, evidence-based help-seeking behaviour among parents when concerned during pregnancy.   Stream 3: identify and/or validate new predictive markers of pregnancy loss risk and/or adverse outcomes across the pregnancy continuum.  Stream 4: conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project, co-designed with consumers, to identify and evaluate the impacts of perimenopause and menopause on health and wellbeing. Applications are required to:   investigate menopause symptoms that impact on physical health, mental health and wellbeing, including psychosocial factors  investigate impacts on workforce engagement and retention, including on paid and unpaid employment  include research participants from metropolitan areas (MM1) and regional, rural and/or remote locations (MM2-7), according to the Modified Monash Model   consider diverse populations (e.g. individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse communities).  Stream 5: investigate the biological mechanisms or risk factors that underpin:    Topic A: unexplained female infertility  Topic B: pregnancy loss and/or neonatal death  Topic C: early or medically induced menopause.  This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.