MRFF – EPCDRI – 2024 Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause Grant Opportunity
Tender ID: 562013
Tender Details
Tender Description
The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:
- Stream 1: identify and/or evaluate the physical, emotional and/or psychological impacts of fertility treatment and its outcomes on prospective parents.
- Stream 2: conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project, co-designed with consumers, to identify the barriers and enablers to, and impact of, evidence-based help-seeking behaviour among parents when concerned during pregnancy.
- Stream 3: identify and/or validate new predictive markers of pregnancy loss risk and/or adverse outcomes across the pregnancy continuum.
- Stream 4: conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project, co-designed with consumers, to identify and evaluate the impacts of perimenopause and menopause on health and wellbeing. Applications are required to:
- investigate menopause symptoms that impact on physical health, mental health and wellbeing, including psychosocial factors
- investigate impacts on workforce engagement and retention, including on paid and unpaid employment
- include research participants from metropolitan areas (MM1) and regional, rural and/or remote locations (MM2-7), according to the Modified Monash Model
- consider diverse populations (e.g. individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse communities).
- Stream 5: investigate the biological mechanisms or risk factors that underpin:
- Topic A: unexplained female infertility
- Topic B: pregnancy loss and/or neonatal death
- Topic C: early or medically induced menopause.
This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
Eligibility:
Applications will only be accepted from approved MRFF Eligible Organisations. A list of approved MRFF Eligible Organisations is available from the GrantConnect GO Documents and from the MRFF Eligible Organisations List on the NHMRC website.
Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the Medical Research Future Fund – Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative – 2024 Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause Grant Opportunities Guidelines
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
