The Medibank Better Health Research Hub and Diabetes Australia have a shared commitment to funding high quality research that focuses on collaboration, meaningful consumer engagement and research translation to improve health service delivery and health outcomes for people living with and/or at risk of diabetes.

Through a newly established joint research grant, we are calling for research projects that focus on implementation of innovative early interventions in primary care to prevent type 2 diabetes in people living with pre-diabetes and priority populations. This includes innovative models that address healthcare workforce issues including education and training, peer support and care integration to improve prevention, screening and early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in primary care to prevent and reduce the conversion rate to long-term, advanced diabetes in Australians.

Applications will be assessed on scientific merit, meaningful consumer and community involvement and ability to tangibly improve primary healthcare service delivery. We welcome applications that demonstrate strong potential and a considered approach for scalable translation of research outcomes into practice.

One award of up to $200,000 for a project of up to two years will be offered to researchers of any career stage addresses the focus area of the award.

The Medibank and Diabetes Australia Research Award is available for non-profit and public sector organisations concerned with the promotion of health care, education and/or medical research in the area of diabetes. This includes universities, medical research institutes, hospitals, professional associations and other not-for profit organisations.

• Email: research@diabetesaustralia.com.au