Programme on health research (Eng)
Programme on health research (Eng)
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, 2018 and 2019 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, 2018 and 2019 the programme will be devoted to the funding collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in children and adolescents mental health.
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 the director of RBUP and professor II at the University of Oslo. He is the 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 Thune Hammerstrøm | 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.
Scientific Review Committee
The committee reviews the pre-proposals and full-proposals.
Wendy Silverman | Chair
Committee Chair and the Alfred A. Messer Professor of Child Psychology and Director of the Yale Child Study Center Program for Anxiety Disorders
Steven Evans
Professor and Co-Director at the Center for Intervention Research in Schools, Ohio University
Jenae Neiderhiser
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State
Heather Taussig
Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver
The User Panel
The user panel consists of six different Norwegian mental health organisations. They provide a ranking of the research questions. It serves as a recommendation when the Kavli Trust Board decides on which research questions that will be funded.
The organisations are Mental Helse, Mental Helse Ungdom, Landsforeningen for pårørende i psykisk helse, Norsk psykologforening, Norsk psykiatrisk forening and Rådet for psykisk helse.
More about this project
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2018
December 15, 2017
For the second time The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research 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 January 3rd.
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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.
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Avoiding waste in health research
October 13, 2017
If you have NOK 25 million you want to spend on health research, how do you share this money out?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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