University teams receive NHMRC partnership grants to support young people

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Three University of Melbourne teams have received grants focused on supporting young people. Image: Pexels

The NHMRC Partnership Project scheme provides funding for researchers and partner organisations to work together to define research questions, undertake the research, and interpret and translate the findings into health policy and practice.

University of Melbourne and affiliates have received three grants:

  • Professor Mark Stevenson and his partners have received more than $800,000 to trial the effects of personalised road safety feedback and incentives through a smartphone application using GPS,  for their project "Delivering a population-based intervention to reduce young driver crashes".
  • Doctor Aswin Ratheesh from ORYGEN Centre for Youth Mental Health has received more than $1.3 million to investigate bipolar early intervention using new digital technologies to integrate an evidenced-based digital platform to improve youth mental health services.
  • Professor Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, also from ORYGEN Centre for Youth Mental Health, will work on his project "Digitally enhancing youth mental health services across Australia: Cluster RCT of an Adaptive, Tailored, and Behavioural Science-informed (ATLAS) Implementation Strategy to improve youth mental health across Australia".

    Congratulations to all team members on these significant grants.