The Avant Foundation Transformation Grant is awarded to one applicant per year providing $1 million over three years to create transformational impact in healthcare through innovations in quality, safety or sustainability.

Avant Foundation prioritises ambitious projects that have:

• the potential to transform the practice of medicine
• novel technology or methodology or new applications for current technology or methodology
• an innovative hypothesis.

Projects should be well informed by literature and articulate clear outcome objectives that are aligned with our aims.

The Transformation Grant is a fixed award of $1 million over three years for a specific research project. The successful recipient will receive $350,000 in the first and second years of their project and $300,000 in the third year, subject to satisfactory reporting. Up to two runners-up each year will receive $100,000 unrestricted funding.

The Transformation Grant has a specific focus each year:

• 2026: Improve quality in medicine (open now)
• 2027: Improve sustainability in healthcare.

For more information about how they measure quality, safety and sustainability, see impact goals.

The Avant Foundation Transformation Grant is open to universities, institutes and charities.

To be eligible, your research project must:

• demonstrate alignment with the aims of the Avant Foundation and the requirements for the Transformation Grant
• take place in Australia for the benefit of Australian communities
• not be a sponsorship request or fundraising appeal
• be majority funded by Avant Foundation and any other funding must have already been secured
• have a medical doctor as an adviser on the project team.

Avant Foundation Transformation Grant applications are open to

• universities
• charities
• medical research institutes
• medical/healthcare foundations
• medical colleges and societies
• hospitals or hospital group (public or private)
• local hospital networks or local health districts
• Primary Health Networks.

• Email: avantfoundation@avant.org.au