(Don't ask me anything about this - I'm just copying an email I received) Source: Australian Government Date: February 27, 2019 URL: https://www.grants.gov.au/?event=public.GO.show&GOUUID=8E688A94-D501-6184-7128C473FE3CD789 Current Grant Opportunity View - GO2361 --------------------------------------- GO ID: GO2361 Agency: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Close Date & Time: 10-Apr-2019 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time) Co-sponsored with: Department of Health Internal Reference ID: GMS-1012 (RGMS) Primary Category: 231013 - Medical Research Publish Date: 27-Feb-2019 Location: ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS Selection Process: Open Competitive FO Reference: Targeted Health System and CO Research Grant Description: The Medical Research Future Fund - Targeted Health System and Community Organisation Research grant opportunity will support research to address: * questions that focus on comparative effectiveness of health services and areas of health system practice with low or insubstantial evidence * gaps in knowledge and evidence relating to health system problems important to the public, providing opportunities to explore consumer-driven research. Health system research question topics for this grant opportunity are: 1. Mobile X-ray services provided within residential aged care facilities. 2. Health economics study of the impacts and costs associated with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health (the Department). Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund and the Targeted Health System and Community Organisation Research program is available on the Department's website at: https://beta.health.gov.au/initiati...th-system-and-community-organisation-research Eligibility: Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC-approved Administering Institutions. A list of NHMRC-approved Administering Institutions is available for download from GrantConnect-GO documents, and on the NHMRC website at: https://nhmrc.gov.au/funding/manage-your-funding/nhmrcs-administering-institutions Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the Targeted Health System and Community Organisation Research Grant Guidelines. Instructions for Application Submission: Applications must be submitted electronically using NHMRC's online Research Grants Management System (RGMS). Other Instructions: Nil -------- (c) 2019 Australian Government
This is a really exciting step for us. It came as a direct result of the NHMRC’s ME/CFS Advisory Committee’s work (a health economics study is one of the committee’s recommendations), and we were excited to see the Dept of Health move forward on this even before the committee’s report was finalised. The committee’s consumer reps were sent the department’s one page brief and asked for our input prior to it being finalised and published. That too is a new step (how much they took our feedback on board is another matter, but we’ve never been asked before). We just have to hope that a good team wins the grant, and that our emphasis on the importance of consumer engagement has been heard.
