Deadline: 24-Jun-22
The Ian Potter Foundation is seeking applications for Public Health Research Program to support outstanding tertiary institutions, medical research institutes or suitably qualified public health organisations which conduct translational public health research.
The Foundation is particularly interested in the applicant’s plan to involve and support outstanding individuals that will strengthen the public health research workforce, including in the areas of biostatistics, health economics and modelling.
Preference will be given to proposals which are preventive in nature, aspirational in scale and seek to improve health outcomes using public health approaches at the population level.
Priorities
Priority will be given to applications that demonstrate a clear commitment to:
- Early and mid-career researcher involvement in the research project, detailing the intended duration of support for nominated individuals (i.e., the extent of tenure security)
- Cross-institutional collaboration, as appropriate
- Community consultation and engagement in the design and delivery of the project or program.
Focus Areas
The Foundation will consider applications for research projects or programs in the following areas:
- Improving health outcomes for Indigenous Australians
- Prevention of anxiety, depression and substance abuse in older Australians
- Prevention of chronic ill health and disease including obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes through the amelioration of common determinants and risk factors.
Funding Information
The Foundation will consider grant applications for 3 to 5 years of funding support in the order of $80,000 to $120,000 per annum over this timeframe, with the expectation of matched funding from the institution and/or other sources.
What do they fund?
The Ian Potter Foundation:
- Seeks to support innovative, ambitious research undertaken by universities and research institutes
- Does not provide funding for projects or items of equipment that might be funded internally or by a government agency such as the NH&MRC or the ARC
- Has specific funding objectives within each program area
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation will only support research endorsed strongly by the host institution or organisation, where the project/program objective(s) is strategically aligned to the broader institution’s mission.
Exclusions
Projects that fall into any of the following categories will not be considered for funding:
- Retrospective funding – projects which are already underway, or which will commence prior to the date indicated in their online application information are not eligible for consideration.
- Recurrent expenditure for which there is no future provision.
- Capital or endowment funds established to fund a chair or to provide a corpus for institutions.
- Research for undergraduate, masters or doctoral students
- Auspicing is not permitted – the organisation applying must be the one that will run the program or project.
- Applications for public charitable purposes outside the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Applications for projects that have previously been declined by the Foundation cannot be resubmitted.
- Applications will not be accepted from organisations that have not successfully acquitted previous grants from the Foundation.
- They do not directly support schools.
For more information, visit https://www.ianpotter.org.au/can-we-apply/funding-rounds/