Deadline: 19-May-25
The HCF Research Foundation is pleased to announce the Health Services Research Grants Scheme to support project with major potential for significant impact – to deliver better health outcomes and access to affordable, high-quality healthcare when and where it is needed.
Topics
- The 2025 Health Services Research Grants round will focus on specific research areas of interest within the following three major topics:
- Structural and employment design approaches that improve the satisfaction and retention of the healthcare workforce, leading to improved care continuity, patient safety and health outcomes and supporting the sustainability of the healthcare system.
- Evaluation of acute hospital avoidance programs and approaches to address frequent and/or unnecessary emergency presentations.
- Implementation strategies for pain management models of care that reduce the risk of pain chronicity and opioid overuse and addiction.
Funding Information
- There is a limited amount of funding available each year. Applicants are advised that there is an upper funding limit of $500,000 available, with no limit on the duration of the project.
- Applicants should also be aware that HCF RF prefers to fund a larger number of smaller projects. In this regard, small pilot projects and short-term support to undertake scoping or meta-reviews (with budgets less than $100,000) supporting larger applications in future are encouraged to apply.
Eligibility Criteria
- Administering Institution
- A single reputable institution must be nominated as the Administering Institution. It is expected that projects will be managed with the support of an academic research institution, such as a university, hospital, or research institute.
- Commercial entities and non-government organisations with research interests are encouraged to join and support applications as collaborators. In these instances, and particularly for those organisations with commercial interests in the research and/or the ability to self-fund research, generous co-funding arrangements are expected.
- Investigator Team
- Each application must have a single nominated lead investigator who is the primary individual responsible for delivering the program of research should it be funded. There is a limit of one application per individual lead investigator. However, there is no limit to the number of applications on which an individual may be listed as a co-investigator.
- Collectively, the investigator team must show evidence of successfully leading a program of academic research. This evidence can be through publications, research impacts and/or previous funding awards.
- Inclusion of persons with relevant lived experience as investigators is encouraged
Ineligibility Criteria
- HCF Research Foundation will not fund:
- Institutional overhead and administration costs and office supplies
- Research infrastructure
- Insurance costs
- Costs related to intellectual property
- Entertainment, hospitality, and personal expenses (including subscriptions and professional membership fees).
For more information, visit HCF.