MRFF – PPHRI – 2025 Incorporating Patient Data in Health Technology Assessment Decision Making 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): develop consumer-informed approaches to generating and/or incorporating consumer/patient data across the health technology assessment lifecycle of medicines or vaccines.   Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): develop consumer-informed approaches to generating and/or incorporating consumer/patient data across the health technology assessment lifecycle of medical devices.   Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): develop scalable and sustainable approaches to evaluating the long-term effectiveness of highly specialised therapies, emerging medicines, or medicine-related health technologies, including the incorporation of patient reported outcomes.  Stream 4 (Targeted Call for Research): develop approaches to generating and/or incorporating patient reported outcomes into the assessment of the long-term safety and efficacy and/or the material safety and biocompatibility of implantable devices.  Applicants to this grant opportunity must propose research that addresses one of the four Streams of research. An application may only be submitted to one of the above four Streams. Applicants must specify the Stream to which they are applying in their application.  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. A list of Eligible Organisations can be found on the NHMRC List of MRFF Eligible Organisations webpage.