Current Application Round

You may wish to note that grant applications addressing the following research priorities are preferred. Applications falling outside these priorities will still be considered although they will have a lower funding preference.

Thematic priorities for the Application Round to be closed on 17 November 2009 are:

Public health theme

Smoking

• Identification of factors and evaluation of methods to prevent the uptake of smoking by specific target groups
• Effectiveness of methods to encourage smokers to cease smoking
• Evaluation of tobacco control policies, in particular pre- and post-intervention studies
  

Mental Health

• Effectiveness of treatment models, in particular those in a community setting
• Health needs assessment of the mentally ill and ex-mentally ill
  

Injury and poisoning

• Identification of risk factors for injury and poisoning
• Effectiveness and efficacy of methods to prevent injury and poisoning

Health services theme

Enhanced primary care

• Multidisciplinary approaches in primary care health service models
• Effectiveness of enhanced primary care programmes
  

Reducing avoidable hospitalisation

• Identification of ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• Community partnership models
• Effectiveness of programmes to reduce avoidable hospitalization
  

Chronic disease prevention and management

• Epidemiology of chronic disease
• Identification of factors that influence health behaviour
• Service delivery model for chronic disease management
• Effectiveness of health promotion activities and chronic disease management programmes
  

Chinese medicine theme

• Establishing safety profile of certain Chinese herbs and medicines
• Interactions between Chinese medicines and Western medicines
• Integrated approaches in combining Chinese and Western models of care
• Knowledge, attitude and practice or use of Chinese medicine in the community