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Wednesday 19 December 2018

Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Million Minds Mission - APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

The Million Minds Mission grant opportunity aims to support multidisciplinary teams of researchers to undertake collaborative, intervention-focused research that is transformative, scalable and demonstrates the greatest impact on health outcomes and translation into policy and/or practice. The grant opportunity will provide up to $25 million over five years to support three initial priority areas for research:  

·  Prevention, identification and treatment of eating disorders 
·  Mental health of children and young people and
·  Mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  
The maximum amount of funding that can be requested for each grant is $5 million.

Objectives
  • support innovative, high quality, collaborative research that focuses on prevention, early-intervention and treatment of mental illness across the life span;
  • promote effective translation of research into health policy and/or practice;
  • foster and build research capacity and workforce capability;
  • actively involve people with lived experience of mental illness in all aspects of the research pathway as part of genuine co-design and co-delivery;
  • leverage collaborations between research teams, policy makers, healthcare funders and the health delivery sector (e.g. education, community, industry and/or healthcare).
Expected Outcomes
  • new or improved interventions for mental illness;
  • clear implementation pathways for prevention and early-intervention strategies across the lifespan;
  • increased translation of patient-focused research into health policy and/or practice;
  • increased research capacity and workforce capability;
  • established collaborative partnerships between researchers, consumers, policy providers and the delivery sector.
Eligibility
A person can only be named as a Chief Investigator A on one application within a priority area. Up to 10 Chief Investigators may be included as members of the research team.

Further information about this call including scheme guidelines can be found at: www.grants.gov.au using the search number: GO2017.

Key dates
·  Minimum data (via RGMS) & MRO compliance check deadline (via Pure): 6 February 2019
·  Funder external deadline: before 5pm AEDT 20 February 2019
Please contact us at mhs@monash.edu if you have any queries about this funding opportunity. 

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