Deadline: 17 September 2018
The Bupa Health Foundation (the Foundation) is seeking applications to invest $1 million in an alliance of organisations who collectively have the capacity and capability to deliver research that meets the objective and requirements of their 2018 Foundation Grants Program.
The overarching objective of the 2018 Foundation Grants Program is to support research that leads to improvements in mental health models of care in Australia, ultimately resulting in better health for the Australian community. This includes outcome-driven research that increases understanding of the limitations of the current models of care and their funding levers and/or research that builds evidence on the effectiveness of innovative models of care.
Research Areas of Interest
The following mental health research themes have been identified as areas of interest for the Foundation:
- community delivered mental health care designed to meet that needs of the modern consumer and health system;
- models of care that integrate mental wellbeing and illness care with wider healthcare and social systems;
- evaluation and/ or scalability of innovative mental health models of care (i.e. involving unique partners, funding structures or technologies) in one or more geographical sites or atrisk populations; and
- digitally-enabled models of care that promote equitable access, appropriateness and efficiency of mental health care, including use of data for informing and evaluating models of care.
Funding Information
- $1 million (exclusive of GST) is available for allocation. As the Foundation is looking to fund a research alliance delivering outcome-driven research they anticipate that this grant will support 1 to 2 projects depending on scope and budget for applications received.
- Funding will commence in 2019 and will be allocated over a funding period of up to two years depending on the agreed project timeline and milestones.
Grant Requirements
The following are the grant requirements:
- proposals must represent an alliance that brings together diverse research partners. This should include different organisation types (i.e. private, public, academic, community or government), disciplines (i.e. within health, economics, social sciences) and perspectives (i.e. prevention, treatment, the patient, the health system);
- proposals must be designed to translate research outputs to improvements in patient outcomes through changes to policy and practice;
- proposals must be informed by existing evidence and contribute to evidence gaps;
- proposals are to incorporate the role for the patient and their lived experiences, in the design, delivery and measurement of quality health care; and
- proposals should be designed to lead to population level impact (i.e. they are sustainable or scalable to other jurisdictions or contexts).
How to Apply
Interested Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit Bupa Health Foundation Grants.