Services

Current grant opportunities

2024 Big Ideas Health Services Research Grant Scheme

The 2024 grant seeks proposals that tackle pressing healthcare challenges, aligning with SPHERE’s priority areas identified by its Council. These include:

1. Transition of care, suggested areas of interest include:
– Transition from paediatric to adult services
– Transition from justice health to primary care
– Mental health care for war veterans and armed services personnel
– Care for priority populations such as culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, homeless individuals and LGBTQI+ people.

2. Building sustainable prevention systems across diverse communities, environments, and determinants of care

3. Models of home-based or virtual care

4. Novel models of primary care, suggested areas of interest include:
– Interface between aged care and access to primary care
– Audiology and Allied Health models
– Ageing primary care workforce
– Nurse practitioners in primary care
– Dental care and its relationship with primary care, nutrition and health impacts

With a total funding pool of $500,000 available, SPHERE anticipates supporting 2-3 grants ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 each.

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NHMRC Collaborations in Health Services Research Grant 2024 – SPHERE support

The CHSRG aims to support small-scale research projects that are crucial for health services and their communities. It emphasises fostering partnerships that drive innovation and translate research findings into scalable health care practices. This initiative seeks to increase collaboration and build research and translation capabilities among health services, researchers, and communities.

SPHERE is providing support across its partnership for the CHSRG, ensuring a robust and coordinated approach to bid development. This includes assisting with project matching, coordinating applications, and offering guidance on aligning research proposals with the grant’s objectives.

SPHERE is also committing up to $100,000 per the successful grant application as partnership support, contingent on confirmation of indicative support and grant success.

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