Funding
The Institute has a number of avenues of funding which contributes to our research efforts. Team members are also involved in a number of projects in non-funded grants as Chief Investigators.
Current Grants
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NHMRC Investigator Grants
- Investigator Leadership Fellowship: Professor Paul Glasziou AO - Neglected Problems in Health Care: $2,701,595.00 (1/1/2020-31/12/2024)
- Investigator Research Fellowship: Prof Tammy Hoffmann OAM - Using shared decision making to improve the appropriateness of healthcare for individuals and the system (1/1/2019—31/3/2025)
- Investigator and Emerging Leadership Fellow: Assistant Professor Loai Albarqouni - Optimising the uptake of effective underused non-drug evidence-based interventions in primary care (1/1/2022-31/12/2026)
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NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence
- Wiser Healthcare: Better value for all Australians: $2,500,000 (3/1/2022 - 31/12/2026)
- Wiser Woundcare: Investing in High Volume, High Risk Woundcare Centre of Research Excellence: $2,500,000 (1/1/2021 - 31/12/2025)
- Centre of Research Excellence in Minimising Antibiotic Resistance in the Community (CRE-MARC): $2,499,728.50 (27/11/2018 - 31/10/2024)
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NHMRC Partnership Centre
Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability; $5,250,000 (1/7/2017 - 30/06/2023)
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Other funding
- GCHHS EBPUnit: Extension Conjoint Program; $1,000,000 (1/01/2021 - 30/06/2026)
- Heart Foundation - Dr. Loai Albarqouni: A novel strategy for improving the prescription of effective non-drug interventions for the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care - the 'e-HANDI': a codesign and feasibility trial.: $75,000 (1/04/2023- 31/03/2024)
- 2023 HSM Early Career Researcher Seed Grant: Dr Mina Bakhit - A mixed-methods study of general practitioners' current knowledge, awareness, and practices around clinical prediction rules in Australian general practice
- MRFF Primary Health Care Digital Innovations - Dr Oyuka Byambasuren CI: The NOTUS trial (NOn-pharmacological Treatment for chronic low back pain USing digital health technology); $1,614,405 (1/01/2023-31/12/2027)
Previous Grants
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NHMRC Fellowships
- Australia Fellowship: (1/7/2010 - 31/12/2015), Increasing value, reducing waste from incomplete or unusable reports of medical research: (1/7/2015—31/12/2019) - Professor Paul Glasziou
- Career Development Fellowship: Secondary stroke prevention: strategies to narrow the gap between evidence and practice (2011-2014) - Professor Tammy Hoffmann
- Research Fellowship: An integrated approach to improving patient-centred care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1/3/2019—31/12/2020) - Associate Professor Claudia Dobler
- Early Career Fellowship: Assistant Professor Ray Moynihan - Preventing Overdiagnosis: A research programme to investigate and respond to the health impacts of expanding disease definitions and lowering diagnostic thresholds (1/3/2017—31/05/2022)
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NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence
- CREDiH: Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health: $2,498,649 (5/2/2018 - 31/10/2022)
- Australia & New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network; $2,497,653 (1/7/2017 - 30/6/2022)
- Testing, Translation and Uptake of Evidence in General Practice: A systems approach to rapid translation; $2,411,049 (1/6/2016 - 31/5/2022)
- Creating sustainable healthcare: ensuring new diagnostics avoid harms, improve outcomes, and direct resources wisely; $2,497,658 (1/5/2016 - 30/4/2022)
- Centre for Research Excellence in E-health; $2,499,870 (1/1/2012 - 31/12/2017)
- Centre for Research Excellence in Minimising Antibiotic Resistance for Acute Respiratory Infections; $2,454,998 (total); $2,377,280 (Bond) (1/11/2012 - 31/10/2018)
- Centre for Research Excellence in Reducing Healthcare Associated Infection: $2,495,705 (1/01/2012 - 31/12/2016)
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NHMRC Project Grants
- Physical activity coaching for adults with physical disabilities: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial: $1,371,184 (10/7/2018 - 31/12/2022)
- Reducing non-beneficial treatment at end-of-life: $504,187 (1/4/2018 - 30/9/2022)
- Reducing antibiotic use in primary care: A randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of decision aids about antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections; $325,500 (1/6/2017 - 31/5/2021)
- M-PreM study: Reproductive factors, from menarche to pre-menopause, and the risk of cardiometabolic and respiratory conditions before menopause; $1,366 831 (1/1/2017 - 31/12/2020)
- Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Editorial Group; $368,086 (1/7/2017 - 30/6/2020)
- Monitoring changes in CT scanning usage to minimise cancer risk: $604,664 (22/8/2018 - 31/12/2020)
- Can a brief early intervention prevent depression and help people live with aphasia a year after stroke? $1,270,185 (1/01/2014 - 31/12/2018)
- Multimedia patient education for prevention of in-hospital falls $401,214 (2007-2011)
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NHMRC Program grants
- Using healthcare wisely: Reducing inappropriate use of tests and treatments $9,578,895 (1/1/2017 - 31/12/2021)
- STEP: Screening and Test Evaluation Program: improving the evaluation and use of tests for screening, diagnosis and monitoring in healthcare $8,915,000 (1/1/2011 - 30/06/2016)
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NHMRC Partnership projects
- Implementing guidelines to routinely prevent chronic disease in general practice; $744,489 (2010 - 2013)
- Evidence innovation: transforming the efficiency of systematic review; $928,416.50 (2016 - 2018)
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Other NHMRC grants
- Effectiveness of Imaging Pathways for Cardiovascular Disease Epidemics of the Elderly, $328,650 (27/9/2018 - 30/11/2020)
- Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Editorial Group: $478,125 (1/7/2013 - 31/3/2019)
- Cochrane Acute Respiratory Review Group: $300,000 (1/7/2009 - 30/6/2013)
- Standalone internet anxiety treatment for stuttering: A randomised trial $516,338.80 (16/6/2016 - 30/6/2019)
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Other funding
- Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service: Gold Coast Hospital Conjoint Program in Evidence Based Practice; $1,000,000 (1/7/2015—31/12/2020)
- National Hearth Foundation of Australia: Guide to the management of hypertension update $156,363 (14/10/2013 - 31/12/2014)
- Department of Health: Antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control practices $102,140 (1/7/2015 - 30/6/2016)
- National Health Service: Monitoring long term conditions in primary care: $3,837,585 (1/1/2014 - 31/12/2018)
- Australian Rotary Health: TOTS: Tuning in to Toddlers: A randomised controlled trial of a program for parents of toddlers $198,056 (11/2/2015 - 31/12/2018)
- Commonwealth Government Innovation Connections Grant: Dr Gina Cleo: Habit change interventions for long-term weight management
- 2019 HSM Early Career Researcher Seed Grant: Dr Paulina Stehlik: Pharmacist referral to general practice: unexplored territory in reducing antibiotic resistance