Research translation is the process of moving research ideas from the lab to the clinic, ensuring new medical discoveries are part of the clinical practice of GPs, specialists and hospitals.
Rapid Applied Research Translation Centres
Research that delivers solutions to health service problems that directly benefits patients. The Australian Government has invested $10 million in accredited Advanced Health Research and Translation Centres (AHRTCs) and Centres for Innovation in Regional Health (CIRHs). A further investment was announced in the 2018 - 2019 budget. See here for details.
Primary Health Care Research Grant
Funding to focus on the comparative effectiveness of health services, address areas of practice with low or insubstantial evidence and provide opportunities for exploring consumer-driven research.
The 2019 Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative (the Initiative) aims to enable or support research to:
- Test innovative public health approaches, to address the risk factors associated with the prevalence and persistence of chronic and complex diseases in Australia
- Identify innovative approaches to treat and manage chronic and complex diseases
- Generate evidence to support the translation of new preventive and public health measures into practice
- Implement innovative approaches to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of preventive healthcare interventions.
BioMedTech Horizons
$45M will be available to s upport for researchers and entrepreneurs to help them turn medical discoveries in viable treatments that will change lives and improve healthcare.
Primary Health Care Research Initiative
Funding to promote evidence based health care through service delivery and patient outcome research, focussing on knowledge translation.
The 2019 Primary Health Care Research initiative aims to enable or support research, including:
- the provision of primary health care services in residential aged care and to older Australians in the community
- lessons from comprehensive primary health care service for Indigenous Australians for the broader primary health care system
- mental health service provision by general practice
- application of precision medicine and genomics in primary health care
- rural and regional access to services
- workforce issues, including scope of practice
- voluntary patient enrolment and blended payments
Applications are currently open for applications in one or more of the following priority areas: 1) Maternal health and the first 2000 days, 2) Early childhood and/or 3) Exercise and Nutrition.
National Critical Infrastructure
$605M will be provided over ten years to support nationally critical infrastructure. A targeted investment program will be established provide timely and strategic access to expertise and infrastructure that facilitates research into novel biomedical technologies to enable their translation into clinical practice. The initiative will use an open and competitive grant selection process to establish and extend infrastructure of critical importance, including facilities, research equipment, systems and services that will be utilised to conduct world-class health and medical research.
Data Infrastructure
$80M will be provided over ten years to support the development of registries, biobanks and linkage platforms. MRFF will work with the Australian Digital Health Agency, states and territories and key industry players to define and then conduct a series of thematic research grant opportunities that advance data platforms, linkage and analytics; end-user digital utility; the development of novel decision tools; and applied artificial intelligence.