MRFF – Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission – 2024 Mental Health Research Grant Opportunity

Overview

The 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.  Stream 1 (Priority areas 1.1 and 1.2, Targeted Call for Research): establish a bold and innovative national consortium involving multi-institutional collaborations, and encompassing multiple geographies and demographics, consisting of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams combining treatment and public health perspectives that will, through a coherent strategy: improve the understanding of the mechanisms underpinning effective mental health interventions and then develop new and improved early interventions, and improve the understanding of protective factors that reduce the negative impact on mental health from shifts in society and how best to strengthen these in the population. Stream 2 (Priority areas 2.1 and 2.2, Targeted Call for Research): establish a national consortium that partners with service providers and people with lived experience, and encompasses multiple geographies and demographics, to develop preventions, interventions, treatments, and models of care, based on the findings from existing epidemiological research.  Stream 3 (Priority areas 3.1 and 3.2, Incubator): conduct small-scale developmental projects to improve understanding of the key components of: Topic A: high-quality mental health care and how these components can be incorporated into optimal personalised care for individuals. Topic B: high-quality prevention strategies. This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.