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GenQ Health and Wellbeing Impact Grants
22 March
Aims to support innovative ideas or approaches that will leverage existing knowledge that has high potential to influence health and wellbeing promotion and/or practice across nutrition, physical activity, sleep, wellbeing and/or health equity, and lead to improved, sustainable and equitable health and wellbeing outcomes at the population level with a focus on infants, children and young people.
Research funded through this scheme should focus on the following objectives:
- Developing research partnerships between researchers, decision-makers and communities
- Creating evidence-based research informed by the community need, and input from community, researchers and policy-makers
- Applying research to drive impact and scale at the local and/or state population level, using a systems-based approach to meet the outcomes listed below
- Supporting the selection, adaptation and implementation of innovations that align with local and/or state populations’ needs and priorities, and
- Evaluating the effectiveness and further scalability of innovations.
Research funded through the GenQ Health and Wellbeing Impact Grants Scheme is expected to focus on five research themes:
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Sleep
- Wellbeing
- Health Equity
The GenQ Health and Wellbeing Impact Grants Scheme aims to fund activities that will benefit one or more of the following priority or at-risk populations:
- Infants, children and young people (mandatory)
- First Nations peoples
- People experiencing disadvantage; living with disability; or from culturally, linguistically and spiritually diverse backgrounds, including recent migrants and refugees
- People living in rural and remote regions.
Eligible applicants:
- Approved NHMRC Administering Institution (AI) OR partner with an Institution that is an approved Queensland-based NHMRC AI and will submit the application and administer any successful funding (if awarded)
- Deliver activities solely in Qld.