Applying for funding
The Children’s Hospital Foundation provides funding for Queensland-based paediatric health and medical research through a transparent and competitive process.
Current funding opportunities
There are no current funding opportunities
Funding streams
Health services research
To improve delivery of healthcare and maximise value for patientsPeople and project support
For preclinical and clinical researchOutstanding female investigators
Career boost program to support women in paediatric researchEquipment and Clinical Excellence
For vital equipment and projects or programs that will improve child and adolescent health care and medical services and enhance the support provided to patients and their families.Recently funded research
We fund research across the translational research pipeline from lab-based research discovering how diseases develop, through clinical research testing new therapies and ways to better manage diseases, to translation of research findings to patients, into practice, and finally to the community.
To date, our funding has supported research in Indigenous health, oncology, nutrition, brain and behaviour health, eye health, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, infection and immunity, oncology and immunotherapy, and emergency and critical care.
Children’s Brain Cancer Centre
Despite advances in other types of childhood cancer, survival rates for brain cancer have made little progress over the past 30 years. The Children’s Brain Cancer Centre aims to change that. This Centre brings together the ‘best of the best’ in paediatric brain cancer research to bring new hope to children and young people fighting this devastating disease.

Woolworths Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research
Most Australian children do not receive adequate nutrition in their diet and poor nutrition has a significant impact on a range of health outcomes. We need more research to understand why, and that identifies where and how we can improve access to healthy diets. . The Woolworths Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research harnesses the combined resources of experts who can improve the health and life prospects for children.

Our Research Advisory Committee
The Children’s Hospital Foundation is committed to accountability and transparency in awarding funds to paediatric research. Applications for research funding undergo a rigorous peer-review process conducted by an independent Research Advisory Committee consisting of eminent researchers with broad research experience in preclinical, clinical and health services research.
