Emergency Medicine Foundation offers up to two years of research funding. 

The purpose of Leading Edge funding is to provide medium term (up to two years) support for seed funding for innovative research that may have the potential for future funding by granting bodies, to leverage additional funding from other granting bodies, including but not limited to National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) or the Australian Research Council (ARC) or other foundation.

Funding is available up to $120,000 per grant (excluding funding requests for health economics) for original research that demonstrates importance to emergency healthcare, excluding funding requests for health economics.

To be eligible to receive EMF Queensland Research Program funding your research must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• the proposed research must be conducted in Queensland; however, this does not preclude collaboration with experts elsewhere in Australia or internationally
• EMF will only support the Queensland site/s of a collaboration and EMF must be acknowledged in any future publication or presentation that uses data or other information from the Queensland site
• the proposed research must be directed at improving the field of emergency medicine for the benefit of patients in Queensland and building emergency healthcare research capacity in Queensland
• the proposed research must have an eligible Principal Investigator (refer to Section 2.3 of the grant guidelines document)
• either the Principal Investigator or at least one Co-Investigator must be a FACEM or FRACP PEM employed by Queensland Health, Mater Hospital Brisbane, Queensland Ambulance Service, Retrieval Services Queensland, Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section), or LifeFlight.

• Phone: 07 3720 5700
• Email: grants@emfoundation.org.au