Research Partnerships and Engagements
Health and Wellbeing Queensland is committed to supporting high quality, impactful research that drives change and to growing and leveraging research funds to ensure sustainability of research programs.
Support
Research partnership opportunities
Health and Wellbeing Queensland is committed to supporting high quality, impactful research that drives change and to growing and leveraging research funds to ensure sustainability of research programs.
Health and Wellbeing Queensland has created a grants program to support initiatives that help to drive generational change and improve the health and wellbeing of Queenslanders. Learn more about the HWQld Grants Program.
If you are applying for a grant outside of the Health and Wellbeing Queensland Grants Program that addresses health inequities and improves population health and wish to propose partnership and/or financial contribution or support from Health and Wellbeing Queensland, please complete the enquiry form.
Grant Titles
Grants awarded to our research partners
Our research partners’ success rate in highly competitive research grant schemes is strong, highlighting HWQld’s ability to strengthen grant proposals through our support. We continue to partner with researchers holding a track record of impactful and well-aligned research projects.
2025
Title: Untapping the potential of sleep health to improve prevention and management of mental health problems in First Nations Children
Principal Investigator: Fatima Yaqoot
Research Partner: University of Sunshine Coast
Funding Scheme: MRFF Childhood Mental Health Research
Amount Awarded: $4,997,586
Title: Transformative synergies: Using Learning Health Systems for Chronic Disease Prevention
Principal Investigator: Luke Wolfenden
Research Partner: University of Newcastle
Funding Scheme: NHMRC Synergy Grants
Amount Awarded: $5,165,000
Title: Active Choices for Springfield: A veteran-led digital program to support physically active and connected lifestyles in a priority regional Australian community.
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Gilson
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation
Amount Awarded: $250,000
2024
Title: Tools for Change: Informing and supporting sustainable chronic disease prevention in Australian schools
Principal Investigator: Nicole Nathan
Research Partner: University of Newcastle
Funding Scheme: MRFF Early to Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Grant
Amount Awarded: $4,869,263
Title: Efficacy, cost-effectiveness and scale-up for a health behaviour intervention for toddlers
Principal Investigator: Kylie Hesketh
Research Partner: Deakin University
Funding Scheme: MRFF Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles
Amount Awarded: $1,855,635
Title: Weight-inclusive maternity care: Codesigning best practice principles with women, clinicians and key stakeholders
Principal Investigator: Bec Jenkinson
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: Women’s Health Research, Translation and Impact Network (WHRTN)
Amount Awarded: $239,664
Title: A co-designed framework to drive action to promote health and equity in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community stores
Principal Investigator: Mark Wenitong
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: NHMRC Targeted Call for Research – Commercial determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 2023
Amount Awarded: $1,408,201
Title: CP-KASP – Cerebral Palsy Knowledge, Advocacy skills, and Support Program: a co-designed program with families of children to optimise evidence-based funding through the NDIS
Principal Investigator: Leanne Sakzewski
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: MRFF Consumer-Led Research
Amount Awarded: $994,907
2023
Title: UQ Digital Health SMART Institute
Principal Investigator: Clair Sullivan
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: The University of Queensland (UQ) Health Research Accelerator 2.1
UQ commitment to strategic recruitment up to $10,000,000
Title: The 360-Kids Community Network to Support Children with Neurodevelopmental Challenges
Principal Investigator: John Cairney
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: The University of Queensland (UQ) Health Research Accelerator 2.0
UQ commitment to strategic recruitment up to $6,000,000
Title: Scaling-up the ‘Play Active’ program to improve children’s physical activity in early childhood education and care – a multi-state hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
Principal Investigator: Hayley Christian
Research Partner: University of Western Australia
Funding Scheme: MRFF Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles
Amount Awarded: $1,700,000
Title: Using existing digital infrastructure for the national scale-up of an effective school nutrition program to reduce population CVD risk
Principal Investigator: Luke Wolfenden
Research Partner: The University of Newcastle
Funding Scheme: MRFF Cardiovascular Health Mission
Amount Awarded: $997,350
Title: TOPCHILD-translate: co-creating an evidence base of intervention elements for early childhood obesity prevention in practice
Principal Investigator: Rebecca Golley
Research Partner: Flinders University
Funding Scheme: Ian Potter Foundation Public Health Research Program
Amount Awarded: $600,000
2022
Title: Small Steps for Big Changes: Implementing an Evidence-Based Diabetes Prevention Program into Diverse Urban Communities
Principal Investigator: Genevieve Healy
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: 2021 NHMRC-CIHR Healthy Cities Implementation Science Team Grant Scheme
Amount Awarded: $1,189,495.48
Title: ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES)
Principal Investigator: Shazia Sadiq
Research Partner: The University of Queensland
Funding Scheme: ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres
Amount Awarded: $4,883,406
Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation
The Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation (HWCRI) is jointly funded by Health and Wellbeing Queensland and The University of Queensland and allows for a more targeted, evidence-based, and responsive approach to improving health and wellbeing of Queenslanders.
The establishment of HWCRI in December 2021 brought together a multidisciplinary team of research and clinical experts from areas including physical activity, health promotion, child health and development, nutrition science, dietetics, Indigenous health and education, and the prevention and management of chronic disease.
The HWCRI is a strategic investment set to boost the health and wellbeing of Queenslanders through the delivery of impactful research and programs, designed to reduce health inequities, and improve the health of all Queenslanders.