The Aboriginal-led alcohol and other drug (AOD) research consortium to support better outcomes for Aboriginal families is a new, competitive, closed grant opportunity. The funding will run for four years from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2030. The grant is funded by the NSW Ministry of Health and administered by the Ministry’s Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAOD) with strategic advice from the Centre for Aboriginal Health (CAH) and the Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence (CEE).
The Aboriginal-led research consortium aims to generate policy-relevant evidence to improve the system response to Aboriginal families experiencing AOD harms and ultimately improve health and wellbeing outcomes. An additional aim of the grant is to grow the Aboriginal AOD research workforce and strengthen monitoring, evaluation, research and knowledge translation capabilities.