| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| NHMRC Synergy Grant |
2026-2031 |
$5,000,000 |
'NextGen Digital Health Literacy: a unique Australian platform to make AI-powered healthcare more inclusive, responsible and evidence-based' |
McCaffery K, Muscat D, Dunn A, Carter S, Ayre J, Nickel B, Freeman B, McCradden M, Capurro D, Tracy M |
| NHMRC Partnership Grant |
2025-2028 |
$496,158 |
'Supporting shared decision making in practice: implementation and evaluation of the Finding Your Way model for Mob' |
Shepherd H, Follent D, Tracy M, Dimopoulos-Bick T, Dickson M, Webster E, Paulson C, Cawley M, Garvey G, TrevenaL |
| Health Services Research in General Practice Grant |
2025-2026 |
$131,862 |
'Occasions of Care Explained and ANalysed (OCEAN) GP study' |
Tracy M, Harrison C, Gordon J, Lu Y, Russell H, Kang M, Makeham M, Milledge K |
| Health Care Consumers’ Association of the ACT Incorporated (HCCA) |
2025-2027 |
$271,621 |
'Using Medicines for Better Health – Consumer Health Literacy for Quality Use of Medicines' |
McCaffery K |
Health Direct Australia |
2025 |
$97,808 |
'Symptom Checker' |
McCaffery K |
University of Sydney Research Excellence and Inclusion Prize 2025 Thompson Prize |
2025 |
$50,000 |
Thompson Fellowship |
Thompson R |
| MRFF EPCDRI 2024 Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause Grant Opportunity |
2025-2028 |
$997,063 |
'Understanding mechanisms and optimising health after early menopause' |
Hickey M...McCaffery K, Copp T |
| MRFF Stream 4 Grant |
2025-2028 |
$5,000,000 |
'Australian Perimenopause and Menopause Study (A-PaM)' |
Mishra G, Boyle J, ... Copp T, et al |
| MRFF Stream 5 Grant |
2025-2028 |
$1,000,000 |
'Understanding the causes of early menopause and delivering new tools to optimise health' |
Hickey M, Mishra G, Doust J, Peate M, Copp T, Price S, Rio I, McCaffery K et al |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| NSW Ministry of Health |
2024 |
$4,500,000 |
'Statewide Health Literacy Hub' |
Muscat D, McCaffery K |
| MRFF Grant Funding |
- |
$1,466,168 |
'Developing an intergrated care model for opioid dependence treatment' |
Tracy M |
| Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine - Seed Funding |
2024 |
$9,450 |
'Informed Choice for Lung Cancer Screening' |
Dodd R |
| University of Sydney, Rewarding Research Success Scheme |
2024 |
$90,000 |
'Recognition of successful researchers in the Faculty of Medicine and Health' |
McCaffery K |
| Te Titoki Mataora: RAP Stage I Collaboration & Ideation Fund Proposal |
- |
$17,000 |
'A co-design approach to utilising AI to improve communications skills within the health sector' |
Ayre J, Macdonald M & team |
| ANZMUSC Seed Grant |
- |
$20,000 |
'Priorities in shoulder osteoarthritis research: A James Lind Alliance priority setting partnership' |
Ayre J, Quicke J & team |
| University of Melbourne - commissioned research |
2024 |
$35,022 |
'Scoping of program tools, guidance, information and communication materials to support the early design of a potential Lung Cancer Screening' |
Dodd R |
| Cancer Institute NSW - Strategic Program Grants |
2024 |
$135,000 |
'Shared decision making about colonoscopy with Aboriginal people in NSW' |
Shepherd H |
Diabetes Australia - consultancy |
2024 |
$7,500 |
'Health literacy review of Diabetes Australia Foot Forward Quiz' |
McKinn S |
| Moyira Elizabeth Vine and Tim Haire Endowment Fund for Research into Schizophrenia 2024 |
2024-2025 |
$100,000 |
'Beyond a tick box exercise: Enhancing informed consent for People with Schizophrenia Through Co-design and Evaluation of E-Consent Processes to improve understanding, capacity, and decision-making for Treatment and Research (Project BETTER)' |
Stratton E, Milton A, Ayre J, Amor L, McCaffery K, Glozier N |
| Sydney Health Partners - Implementation Science Grant |
2024 |
$20,000 |
'Ensuring equitable implementation of breast density notification through population-based breast cancer screening in NSW: integrating information resources for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women.' |
Nickel B |
| NHMRC Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change |
2024 |
$12,000 |
'Beyond a tick box exercise: Enhancing informed consent for People with Schizophrenia Through Co-design and Evaluation of E-Consent Processes to improve understanding, capacity, and decision-making for Treatment and Research (Project BETTER)' |
Pickles K |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| NHMRC Synergy Grant |
2024-2028 |
$5,000,000 |
'Solving Australia’s hypertension treatment problem' |
Schutte A, Bonner C, Schlaich M, Gnanenthiran S, Hespe C, Atkins E |
| MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission |
- |
$1,900,000 |
‘The PRECISE (Practitioner Readiness, Education and Capabilities, with Implementation Science Evaluation) Genomics Research Project’ |
Ma A, Rankin N, Wikinson D...Bonner C |
| NHMRC Ideas grant |
2023-2025 |
$589,259 |
'Community driven communication and engagement during health crisis periods: co-designing enhanced and transferable strategies' |
Seale H, Harris-Roxas B, Goddard C, Smith M, Heinrichs DH, Bromhead H, Macnamara J, Blazek K, McCaffery K (AI)et al |
| University of Sydney, School of Psychology |
- |
$29,580 |
'Improving the consent process for genomics testing for CALD patients' |
Juraskova I, Hersch J, Butow P, Bartley N, Laidsaar-Powell R |
| Sydney Health Partners Implementation Science Academy Pilot Grant |
- |
$20,000 |
'Helping clinicians and patients make sense of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer: implementation of an information resource' |
Dodd R |
| NSW Health Cardiovascular Research Capacity Program |
- |
$750,000 |
'Empowering patients to self-manage blood pressure with education and support from Pharmacists: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial' |
Chapman N, Sawan M, Bonner C, Kouladjian-O'Donnell L, Sarkies M, Tracy M, et al |
| ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation Next Generation Researcher Network 2023 Seed Funding Scheme |
- |
$19,753 |
'Towards better access and equity in digital mental health: Understanding and addressing the impacts of health literacy in treatment' |
Ayre J, Muscat D with team |
| Sydney Cancer Partners Seed Grant |
- |
$19,750 |
'Towards better access and equity in digital mental health: Understanding and addressing the impacts of health literacy in treatment' |
Ayre J, Muscat D with team |
| Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine Seed Funding Collaboration Grant |
- |
$9,450 |
'Co-design workshops for lung cancer screening decision support tools in regional and rural areas with First Nations Communities' |
Dodd R |
| Western Sydney Local Health District |
- |
$868,368 |
'Statewide Health Literacy Hub' |
Muscat D |
| DVC Research: Equity Prize |
2023 |
$15,000 |
'Equity Prize - Brown' |
Muscat D |
| University of Sydney - University of Glasgow Health Inequalities Initiative Funding |
2023 |
$41,760 |
'University of Sydney University of Glasgow Health Inequalities Initiative Funding' |
Ayre J |
| Agency for Clinical Innovation (NSW) |
2023 |
$29,606 |
'Cultural adaptation of a Shared Decision Making measure (SDM Q9)' |
Shepherd H |
| Cancer Australia |
2023 |
$2,507,930 |
'Develop a suite of information and workforce education materials for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program' |
Dodd R& team |
| DVC Research: Equity Prize |
2023 |
$15,000 |
'Equity Prize - Brown' |
Nickel B |
| HCF Health Services Research Grant |
2022-2025 |
$402,898 |
'Understanding the variation in the use of hysterectomy to improve outcomes for women with heavy menstrual bleeding.' |
Doust J, Jordan S, Copp T, Wilson L, Hickey M, Mishra G, Thompson R. |
| Sydney Cancer Partners Seed Grant |
2023 |
$20,000 |
'Towards building breast cancer risk factors health literacy in Australia to inform prevention' |
Nickel B |
| Health Care Consumers' Association of the ACT Incorporated |
2023-2023 |
$92,448 |
'Consumer Health Literacy for Quality Use of Medicines' |
McCaffery K |
| Diabetes Australia |
2023 |
$9,950 |
'Health Literacy Review ' |
Ayre J |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| Academic Partner, NSW Health's Net Zero Leads Program |
2022-2024 |
$300,000 |
'Provide support to 10 Net Zero Lead clinicians appointed to plan and conduct research projects in their workplace with a net zero lens' |
Pickles K, Dakin T et al |
| NHMRC Investigator Grant (Leadership 2) |
2023-2027 |
$2,882,170 |
'Transforming health literacy in Australia: a partnership approach' |
McCaffery K |
| NHMRC Investigator Grant (Emerging Leadership 1) |
2023-2027 |
$655,150 |
'Evaluation and implementation of a digital health literacy tool to improve written health information' |
Ayre J |
| National Heart Foundation of Australia - Future Leader Fellowship |
2023-2027 |
$529,000 |
'Addressing health literacy to improve national CVD prevention guidelines' |
Bonner C |
| Heart Foundation |
- |
$90,000 |
'INcreasing inFLUEnza immuNisation of Cardiovascular inpatiEnts (INFLUENCE): A multifaceted, multi-level systems approach to increasing adoption' |
Nelson A, Bonner C et al |
| ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) |
2023-2025 |
$744,719 |
'Co-creating critical health literacy interventions' |
Muscat D |
| Medibank Private Ltd/Medibank Health Research Fund |
2022-2023 |
$204,837 |
'Understanding consumers and hospitals perspectives of Medibank patient reported experience measures (PREMs) data: a qualitative interview study' |
Nickel B, Copp T, Dodd R, McCaffery K |
| HCF Health Services Research Grant |
2022-2025 |
$402,898 |
'Understanding the variation in the use of hysterectomy to improve outcomes for women with heavy menstrual bleeding' |
Doust J, Jordan S, Copp T, Wilson L, Hickey M, Mishra G, Thompson R |
| NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies |
2023-2027 |
$1,119,327 |
'NUDG-ED: Trial of behavioural ‘nudging’ interventions to reduce unnecessary care for low back pain in the Emergency Department' |
A Traeger, C Maher, L Cullen, K McCaffery, J Linder, R Buchbinder, I Harris, E Coiera, Q Li, K Howard |
| NHMRC 2022 MRFF Models of Care to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Acute Care |
2022-2025 |
$2,800,000 |
'Reshaping the management of low back pain in emergency departments' |
Maher C, Rogan E, Machado G, Edwards J, Buchbinder R, Harris I, Williams C, Naganathan V, Howard K, McCaffery K, Billot L, Wiggers J, Harvey L, Kinsman L, Ghinea N |
| Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Digital Health Agency – Official Order |
- |
$167,291 |
'COVID-19 Innovation Fund – Multicultural Communities and Hard to Reach Groups, Stream 2' |
Frawley J, Seale H, Maccartney K, Leask J, McCaffery K, Woodland L, Zachariah D, Mahimbo A, Abdi I |
| Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health – Official Order |
2022-2023 |
$414,000 |
'For the provision of development of a National Health Literacy Strategy to support the National Preventive Health Strategy' |
Redman S, McCaffery K, Nutbeam D, Rudge S |
| NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence Grant |
2022-2026 |
$2,500,000 |
'Wiser healthcare: better value care for all Australians' |
McCaffery K; Carter S; Barratt A; Bell K; Moynihan R; O’Connor D; Maher C; Buchbinder R; Houssami N; Glasziou P |
| NHMRC Investigator Grant (Emerging Leadership 1) |
2022-2026 |
$650,740 |
'Reducing the harms of inappropriate medicalisation of women’s reproductive health' |
Copp T |
| International Lung Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Grant |
2022 |
US$50,000 |
'Informed choice for lung cancer screening in Australia' |
Dodd R |
| Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellowship |
2022-2024 |
$590,000 |
'Ensuring ethical and flexible consent in cancer genomic research and clinical practice' |
Hersch J |
| University of Sydney, FMH EMCR Boost Scheme |
2022 |
$4,000 |
- |
Copp T |
| NHMRC CRE WHiRL Project Support Grant Scheme |
2022 |
$10,000 |
'Qualitative evaluation of an online decision support tool for couples with unexplained infertility' |
Copp T Mol B, Hammarberg K, Wang R. |
| Monash University: AHRA WHTRN Early and MidCareer Researcher (EMCR) |
2022 |
$10,000 |
'Equity in breast density notification in Australia: exploring the impact and needs amongst culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women' |
Nickel B |
| Sax Institute: commissioned research |
2022 |
$145,050 |
'National Health Literacy Strategy' |
McCaffery K |
| Taylor & Francis Group: commissioned research |
2022 |
$69,295 |
'Health Literacy and Communication' |
Bonner C |
| Public Health Association of Australia: GSK Immunisation Grant |
$23,000 |
2022 |
'Addressing health literacy needs in COVID-19 risk communication' |
Bonner C |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| Medical Research Future Fund |
2023-2028 |
$1,534,478.05 |
'Optimising the treatment of antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections in children: The FOSUTI Trial' |
Williams P, Gwee A, Snelling T, Yeoh D, Blyth C, Irwin A, Britton P, Shuvo Bakar K, Howell M, McKinn S, Totterdell J |
| NHMRC MRFF EPCDR Initiative |
July 2021-June 2025 |
$2,000,000 |
'Ready to screen. Targeting the high-risk population to improve lung cancer diagnosis' |
Rankin N, … Dodd R |
| NHMRC MRFF International Clinical Trial Collaborations |
2021-2025 |
$2,100,000 |
'Determining the impact of a new primary care model for low back pain: A cluster randomised trial' |
French S, Hancock M, Zwar N, Miller J, Taljaard M, Graham P, Haines T, Blyth F, De Luca K, Willcock S, Clavisi O, McCaffery K, Jenkins H, Donnelly C |
| Australian Health Research Alliance Women’s Health Research and Translation Network EMCR Funded Awards |
2021-2022 |
$15,000 (x2) |
'For career development and advancement activities' |
Dodd R and Copp T |
| Australian Skeptics Inc Grant |
2021 |
$15,000 |
'Understanding beliefs, barriers, and misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in the Australian community' |
Pickles K, Copp T, Meyerowitz-Katz G, Seale H, Steffens M, Bonner C, Dodd R, Cvejic E, McCaffery K |
| NHMRC Partnership Project |
2021-2024 |
$495,760 |
'Parenting+ Improving health and service-use outcomes through health literacy training for new parents: an effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial' |
McCaffery K, Muscat D, Nutbeam D, Schmied V, Wen LM, Raynes-Greenow C, Hayes A, Cvejic E, Shepherd H |
| Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health – Official Order |
2021 |
$43,436.25 |
'Survey of services for the Independent Review of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Residential Aged Care Facilities' |
McCaffery K |
| NHMRC Investigator Grant (Emerging Leadership 1) |
2021-2025 |
$645,205 |
'The impact of breast density notification in Australia' |
Nickel B |
| AHRA Women’s Health Research and Translation Network |
2021 |
$11,720 |
'Women's EMCR health award' |
Copp T |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| National Cancer Institute (USA) Merit Grant |
Nov 2020-Oct 2025 |
US$3,416,387 |
'Understanding affective processing of scientific evidence to promote informed choice for breast cancer screening' |
Scherer L, Lewis C, McCaffery K, Morse B, Cappella JN, Hersch J |
| Marie Bashir Institute – Seed Grant |
2020 |
$24,000 |
'Optimising health communication for positive community responses to testing for COVID-19 and beyond' |
McCaffery K, Bonner C, Ayre J, Cvejic E, Dodd R, Nickel B, Pickles K, Isautier J, Copp T, Batcup C, Cornell S, Dakin T |
| University of Sydney Lifespan Research Network – Lifespan Seed Grant |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
'Understanding hospital admission for low back pain' |
Machado G, Richards B, Needs C, Coombs D, Hayes S, Rogan E, Teng MJ, Dodd R, Ghinea N, Maher C |
| University of Sydney Lifespan Research Network – Lifespan Seed Grant |
2020-2021 |
$10,000 |
'SHeLL editor: An online real-time editor to improve the health-literate design of written materials' |
Muscat DM, Ayre J, Jansen J, Aslani P, Shepherd H, Mouwad D, Nothman J, McCaffery K |
| Western Sydney Local Health District – Research and Education Network |
2020-2021 |
$50,000 |
'Supporting end-of-life conversations through improved communication for shared decision-making' |
Egerton A, Muscat D, Maka K, Greenaway S, Datyner M, Weir K |
| Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health – Official Order |
2020-2021 |
$69,988 |
'Australian women and primary care clinicians’ knowledge, understanding on breast density relating to breast cancer, and their perspectives around messaging and notification of breast density' |
Nickel B, McCaffery K, Houssami N, Brennan M, Hersch J, Carter S, Kaderbhai, Verde A, Vaccaro L |
| Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health – Public Health and Chronic Disease Program – National Women’s Health Strategy and National Men’s Health Strategy – Health Promotion Grant |
2020-2022 |
$111,250 |
'Growing the health literacy skills of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and caregivers' |
Muscat DM, Lloyd J, McCaffery K, Dickson M, Abbott P |
| University of Sydney – University of Glasgow Partnership Collaboration Awards |
2020 |
$33,631 |
'Maximising the academic and societal impact of novel health literacy interventions for chronic conditions through strategic research priority setting (Maxi-HL)' |
McCaffery K, Robb K |
| University of Sydney – University of Copenhagen Partnership Collaboration Awards |
2020 |
$40,000 |
'Can delayed screening disrupt routine (over)use of the prostate screening test? Developing a new model of care' |
Barratt A, Brodersen J, Pickles K, McCaffery K, Hersch J, Malmqvist J, Smith R |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia |
2020 |
$50,000 |
'Exploring GP perspectives on two decision aids for prostate cancer screening and their integration into routine workflow' |
Pickles K, McCaffery K, Barratt A |
| HCF Research Foundation |
2020-2022 |
$258,256 |
'Assisting patients with knee osteoarthritis to make informed choices about total knee arthroplasty and non-operative management' |
Harris I, Karunaratne S, Zadro J, Trevena L, Solomon M, Horsley M, Hoffmann T, McCaffery K |
| University of Sydney, Marie Bashir Institute Seed Grant |
2020 |
$24,000 |
'Optimising health communication for positive community responses to testing for COVID-19 and beyond.' |
McCaffery K, Bonner C, Ayre J, Cvejic E, Dodd R, Nickel B, Pickles K, Isautier J, Copp T, Batcup C, Cornell S, Dakin |
| NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence |
2020-2024 |
$2,499,189 |
'Low Back Pain Centre of Research Excellence' |
Maher C, Buchbinder R, Hancock M, O’Sullivan P, McAuley J, Blyth F, Jorm L, Collie A, McCaffery K, Hayes A |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| NHMRC Partnership Project |
2019-2022 |
$369,182 |
'Maximising organ donor offer utility system-wide (the MODUS study)' |
Webster A, Wyburn K, Morton R, McCaffery K, Kelly P, Clayton P, Muscat D, De La Mata N |
| NHMRC Project Grant |
2019-2022 |
$630,256 |
'The Vaccine Barriers Assessment Tool (VBAT): a vaccine acceptance and barriers tool for optimisation of vaccine uptake for parents of children under the age of five' |
Danchin M, Costa D, Trevena L, Bonner C, Durrheim D |
| Translational Research Grant Scheme |
2019-2020 |
$609,846 |
'Supporting adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (SUCCESS): A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the SUCCESS intervention' |
Sud K, Muscat D, Webster A, Shepherd H, Lambert K, McCaffery K, Robbins A, Kelly P, Liu N, Kim J |
| Mental Health Commission of New South Wales |
2019-2021 |
$465,000 |
'Evaluation of the Statewide Mental Health Literacy Initiative' |
Redman A, Newell S, Lines K, Muscat DM, Dodd R, Cvejic E, McCaffery K |
| World Health Organization (Tender) |
March 2019 |
$50,000 |
'Development of a Health Literacy Programme' |
McCaffery K, Muscat D, Shepherd H, Nutbeam D |
| Heart Foundation, Vanguard Grant |
2019-2020 |
$75,000 |
'Development and randomised trial evaluation of an online engagement tool for CVD risk' |
Bonner C, Trevena L, McCaffery K, Doust J |
| Diabetes Australia, Research Program |
2019 |
$59,856 |
'Addressing inequalities in diabetes self-management with a health-literate action plan' |
Bonner C, McCaffery K, Ayre J, Schier N, Gudorf K, Turner R |
| Medical Research Futures Fund, RART Round 3 |
2019 |
$110,000 |
'Supporting culturally–diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase iib)' |
Webster A, Sud K, O’Lone E, Shepherd H, McCaffery K, Muscat DM, Sydney Health Partners |
| Title |
Duration |
Amount |
Topic |
Recipients |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia |
2018 |
$56,700 |
'Evaluating two decision aids for Australian men to support informed decisions about prostate cancer screening' |
McCaffery K, Barratt A, Pickles K |
| Kidney Health Australia, Medical & Scientific Research Funding |
2018 |
$50,000 |
'Supporting culturally–diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase II)' |
Webster A, Sud K, O’Lone E, McCaffery K, Shepherd H, Muscat DM, Sydney Health Partners |
| Medical Research Futures Fund, Project Grant: G197871 |
2018 |
$172,440 |
'Supporting culturally–diverse adults with CKD to engage in shared decision making successfully (Phase II)' |
Webster A, Sud K, O’Lone E, McCaffery K, Shepherd H, Muscat DM, Sydney Health Partners |
| WSLHD Research & Education Network Research Grant Scheme |
2018 |
$46,000 |
'Parenting Plus: Embedding health literacy into New Parents Groups' |
Tunchon L, Nutbeam D, McCaffery K, Muscat, DM |
| Avant Foundation – Quality Improvement Grant |
2018 |
$102,000 |
'Medico-legal drivers of low value care' |
Ries N, Jansen J (co-leads), McCaffery K, Elshaug A, Doust J |
| University of Sydney Lifespan Research Network Funding – Lifespan Seed Grant |
2018 |
$10,000 |
'Examination of the impact of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) label on psychosocial outcomes and decision making' |
Jansen J, Copp T, Hersch J, McCaffery K, Doust J, Dokras A, Mol B |
| Medibank Better Health Foundation Research Funding |
2018 |
$15,000 |
'Identifying the barriers and facilitators to high value physiotherapy' |
Zadro J, Maher C, McCaffery K, Dodd R, Wortley S |
