Designed to support pioneering and exploratory studies, the practical application of research findings, and preventative interventions designed to improve health outcomes and quality of life for workers affected by dust diseases.
Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: Up to $2,374,000
- Application opened: 27 March 2025
- Application closed: 23 April 2025, 4:00 pm
Program objective
Funding is available for:
Discovery & Innovation Grants
Basic and Translational Research: Aimed at building foundational knowledge and transitioning laboratory research to patient care.
Innovative Studies: Designed to foster pioneering research that proposes new theories, extends existing discoveries, or applies novel methodologies and technologies.
High-Risk High-Reward Projects:Supports projects with the potential to revolutionise the field through groundbreaking findings.
Epidemiological Research: Funds studies that analyse the patterns, causes, and impacts of dust diseases within populations, providing vital data to inform public health strategies and preventive measures.
Research Translation Grants
Policy Development: Funds projects aimed at translating research findings into actionable government or organisational policy.
Practice Implementation: Supports initiatives that apply research findings in clinical or community health settings to improve treatment and care practices.
Epidemiological Research: Funds studies that analyse the patterns, causes, and impacts of dust diseases within populations, providing vital data to inform public health strategies and preventive measures.
Prevention Grants
**Risk Identification: Funds research that identifies new or under-recognised risks associated with dust diseases (**as relates to hazardous dust exposures in the workplace).
Prevention Research: Supports the development and testing of interventions designed to prevent the onset of dust diseases in at-risk populations.
Epidemiological Research: Funds studies that analyse the patterns, causes, and impacts of dust diseases within populations, providing vital data to inform public health strategies and preventive measures.
This program is funded and administered by icare.
Eligibility
For details on the Eligibility Criteria, please see the icare website for a copy of the Guidelines and Submission Protocols.
After the application is submitted
Please check the Key Dates here
Support and contact
For all information requiring the grant stream, key dates, application forms and guidelines, please go to https://www.icare.nsw.gov.au/injured-or-ill-people/work-related-dust-disease/dust-diseases-board-research-grants/research-funding