Grants
Successful Grant Funding
2025
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG AT HEART Mechanisms linking vascular brain and cognitive health in older adults | ARC Discovery project | CI | $852,831.00 |
2024
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The BLOOM program A digital intervention integrating social and emotional learning physical activity and nutrition in early years settings to enhance preschoolers wellbeing | MRFF | CI | $999,805.60 |
| Which Way? Quit Pack: Assessing the implementation and impact of a National mailed smoking and vaping cessation intervention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents and adults. | MRFF | CI | $4,739,632.78 |
2023
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living Well after Hospital: A randomised controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a coordinated transitional care program for older adults being discharged from hospital. | MRFF | CI | $916,761.11 |
| Understanding the Social Determinants of Young Peoples Mental Health: an Exploratory Mixed Methods Study | MRFF | AI | $457,765.90 |
| ROADMAP trial: RandOmised Arthroplasy infection worlDwide Multidomain Adaptive Platform trial | NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies | AI | $4,886,490.32 |
| Tools for Change: Informing and Supporting Sustainable Chronic Disease Prevention in Australian Schools | MRFF | AI | $4,869,263.25 |
| DPYD and UGT1A1 genotyping for fluoropyrimidine and irinotecan dose personalisation to reduce severe toxicity | MRFF | AI | $2,705,260.74 |
| Exploring the benefit of multidisciplinary primary care | MRFF | CI | $1,744,251.10 |
| The use of scrotal cooling to improve semen quality and pregnancy rates within infertile men | MRFF | AI | $1,195,461.94 |
2022
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using existing digital infrastructure for the national scale-up of an effective school nutrition program to reduce population CVD risk | MRFF | AI | $997,350.60 |
| Improving the Well-Being of Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: a Randomised Controlled Trial | National Heart Foundation of Australia | AI | $964,531.00 |
| Predict prevent and treat bone metastases in prostate cancer | NHMRC Ideas grant | AI | $622,333.32 |
| A Preventative Care Program to optimise mental health during transition into residential aged care | MRFF | AI | $200,000.00 |
| The Australian Secondary School Alcohol and Drug Survey: Monitoring the prevalence type and burden of adolescent gambling in NSW | NSW Department of Customer Service | CI | $135,200.00 |
| Getting quality evidence to policy makers and practitioners more quickly Applying novel methods to identify effective scalable interventions to prevent e-cigarette use in youth | MRFF | AI | $1,862,283.00 |
| A randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of Baby-EATS a scalable digital health intervention targeting infant feeding and weight in children aged 0-2 years | MRFF | CI | $1,377,504.90 |
| Increasing the capacity of Community Managed Organisations to provide preventive care to people with a mental health condition | MRFF | CI | $1,135,281.00 |
| Wearables Integrated Technology to support healthy behaviours in people with Type 2 Diabetes (Wear-IT) | MRFF | CI | $1,093,405.00 |
2021
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery and validation of a blood-based protein biomarker for the early detection of ovarian cancer | Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation | CI | $595,095.00 |
| Using a national level multi-registry analysis to determine whether prescribed anti-platelet therapies post-stroke can modify the risk of cognitive decline or dementia | NHMRC Ideas grant | CI | $452,550.00 |
| A trial of vaporised nicotine products for smoking cessation following discharge from drug and alcohol residential withdrawal services | NHMRC project grant | CI | $240,109.00 |
| SISTAQUIT scale-up in Indigenous populations in Australia | NHMRC (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases) | CI | $1,800,000.00 |
| Developing and testing a community-informed intervention to increase VIA cervical cancer screening in Eswatini | NHMRC (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases) | AI | $1,206,526.00 |
2020
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The impact of individualised care plans for elderly patients discharged home from hospital after neck of femur fracture: A randomised controlled trial | NHMRC Partnership project | CI | $476,312.00 |
2019
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improving implementation of Health Assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients in mainstream general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial | NHMRC Target Call Research | CI | $745,057.00 |
| Cardioprotective effects of the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine | NSW Ministry of Health Cardiovascular Disease | CI | $600,000.00 |
| Taking action: Increasing Advance Personal Planning by older adults | ARC Discovery project | CI | $542,000.00 |
| Testing the impact of an Interactive Health Communication Application on days alive out of hospital and quality of life following surgery for colorectal cancer | NHMRC Partnership project | CI | $306,710.00 |
| A trial of vaporised nicotine products for smoking cessation following discharge from drug and alcohol residential withdrawal services | NHMRC Project grant | CI | $1,833,513.00 |
2018
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot randomised controlled trial of a telephone delivered intervention for hazardous alcohol use among young people living with severe mental ill-health | Australian Rotary Health | CI | $86,747.00 |
| Healthy living after stroke: An online intervention for improving stroke survivor health behaviours and quality of life | NHMRC project grant | CI | $599,124.00 |
| Does a targeted intervention improve medication safety after discharge and improve outcomes for people with dementia and their carers | Dementia and Aged Care Services Research and Innovation | CI | $544,096.00 |
| A randomised controlled trial of a continuing care telephone intervention following residential substance abuse treatment | NSW Ministry of Health AOD Innovation Grants | CI | $517,874.00 |
| Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) plus feedback in SMART Recovery Australia: A feasibility study examining SMART ROM | NSW Ministry of Health AOD Innovation Grants | CI | $358,913.00 |
| Addressing health and care needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with dementia and their communities | NHMRC Targeted Call for Research | CI | $3,095,009.00 |
| Aboriginal child and adolescent health improvement through Aboriginal leadership and collaborative research teams | NHMRC CRE | CI | $2,499,588.00 |
| ‘Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancy’ - a cluster randomised trial to implement culturally competent evidence-based smoking cessation for pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait | NHMRC Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases | CI | $2,318,652.00 |
2016
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of Enable Me: an e-health innovation for stroke survivors and support persons | National Stroke Foundation | CI | $29,444.00 |
| A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of Enable Me: an e-health innovation for stroke survivors and support persons. | NHMRC Partnership | CI | $253,264.00 |
| The susceptibility prevalence type and burden of adolescent gambling: an opportunity for an ongoing monitoring tool | Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (TENDER) | CI | $174,967.00 |
| Phase 1 and 2 of the Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancy | NSW Ministry of Health | CI | $136,275.00 |
2015
| Title | Scheme | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating the Quit for New Life | NSW Ministry of Health (TENDER) | CI | $270,908.00 |
| Improving uptake of colorectal screening among primary care attendees. | Australian Rotary Health | CI | $17,000.00 |