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The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research

The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research is committed to fund research on preventing and combating serious illness and on alleviating humanitarian need. In 2017-2023 the programme will be devoted to the funding collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in children and adolescents mental health.

About the programme

The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research is committed to fund research on preventing and combating serious illness and on alleviating humanitarian need. In 2017-2023 the programme will be devoted to the funding collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in children and adolescents mental health.

Call for proposal 2022 (deadline 2022 March 15th)

Call for proposal 2021 (closed)
Call for proposal 2020 (closed)
Call for proposal 2019 (closed)
Call for proposal 2018 (closed)
Call for proposal 2017 (closed)

Administrative staff

The staff designed the programme. They screen all applications before sending them through to review and they provide support for the scientific committees.


Jan-Ole Hesselberg | Programme manager
joh@kavlifondet.no | +47 900 71 673


Ida Svege | Senior Advisor
ics@kavlifondet.no |  +47 917 11 952

The Strategic Scientific Committee

The committee searches for evidence gaps in high quality scientific databases. The identified evidence gaps are formulated as research questions.


Arild Bjørndal | Chair
Bjørndal is Associate Director at Center for Evidence and Implementation and professor at the University of Oslo. He is the former CEO of RBUP and former board chair of the Campbell Collaboration.


Johan Siqveland
Siqveland is a senior advisor at Akershus University Hospital. He is a psychologist and researcher, and previously a senior advisor at the section of Health Economics and Drugs Unit at The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services.


Karianne Hammerstrøm Nilsen | member
Hammerstrøm is a senior advisor at RBUP and the former head of the section of welfare services at The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services. She is senior advisor/editor-in-chief for the Intervention Handbook.

Scientific Review Committee

The committee reviews the pre-proposals and full-proposals.


Katrina Witt
NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow at Orygen and The University of Melbourne. Co-chair of a Special Interest Group for the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). Senior Methods Editor for the Cochrane Collaboration.


Ole Jakob Storebø
Professor, Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark. Editor at the Cochrane Collaboration and Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology


Patty Leiten
Assistant Professor and Director PhD Education at Research Institute for Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam


Brandy Maynard
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Saint Louis University and Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration’s Social Welfare Coordinating Group.


Robert Nix
Integrated Specialist in Diverse and Underserved Children, Families, and Communities, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The User Panel

The Kavli Trust user panel consists of approximately 200 registered users, including patients, carers and healthcare professionals within children and adolescents mental health. They provide a ranking of the identified research questions. It serves as a recommendation when the Kavli Trust Board decides on which research questions that should be prioritized and included in the call.

More about this project

  •  Shortlist for focused research funding

    December 12, 2017

    Ten chosen candidates are now being given the chance to submit a more comprehensive application for funds from the Kavli Trust to study mental health issues affecting children and young people.

  •  Reducing avoidable waste in health research

    October 13, 2017

    If you have NOK 75 million to spend on health research, how should you design grant giving process?

  •  31 pre-proposals submitted

    October 13, 2017

    Through the Programme on Health Research the Kavli Trust will be awarding a total of EUR 2,6 M to collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in child and adolescent mental health.

  • CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2017

    June 28, 2017

    The Kavli Trust will be awarding a total of NOK 25 M to collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in child and adolescent mental health. Registration opens July 5th.

  •  Funding for research on mental health (Eng)

    May 22, 2017

    The Kavli Trust will be awarding a total of NOK 25 M to collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in children and adolescents mental health.