MRFF - Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission - 2023 Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity

Overview

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission aims to improve the quality of life of an additional one million people, who might not otherwise benefit from mental health research, to be part of new approaches to prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and recovery. This grant opportunity will support research and medical innovation projects that: Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project in partnership with priority population groups, to identify structural inequalities as well as individual mental health challenges leading to poor mental health, and then develop collective strategies to improve the mental health of these communities. Stream 2 (Incubator): conduct small-scale developmental projects to improve the understanding of the ways to safeguard the mental wellbeing of communities and individuals affected by: Topic A: environmental threats (such as bushfires, floods, effects of climate change and others). Topic B: the COVID-19 pandemic including long COVID. Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project to build knowledge of the factors that protect the mental wellbeing of individuals and communities from environmental threats and/or the COVID-19 pandemic, how these vary between communities, and how to foster these in communities through community-based leadership. Stream 4 (Incubator): conduct small-scale developmental projects to improve capability in, and develop new models of care for, rural and remote settings or other under-researched settings. Applicants to this grant opportunity must propose research that addresses one of the four 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.