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The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research

During the period 2017–2024, The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research has awarded NOK 172 million to research on mental health in children and young people. The funds have been allocated through a dedicated programme developed and managed in collaboration between Kavli Trust and the Dam Foundation.

 

 

About the programme

The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research is specially designed to ensure that the funds go to research that will make a difference and be useful for patiens, carers and health workers.

Before each annual call for proposals, new evidence gaps within child and adolescent mental health are identified through a thorough process, involving both professionals and users.

For applicants: Frequently asked questions

Read more: The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research: Background and method

In 2017-2024 the programme will be funding collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in children and adolescents mental health, with a total budget of up to NOK 172 million.

Call for proposals 2024 (closed)
Call for proposal 2023 (closed)
Call for proposal 2022 (closed)
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 of The Kavli trust designed the programme. They screen all applications before sending them through to review and they provide support for the scientific committees.

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 | Member
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.


Russell Viner

CBE (Commander) Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in the UK. Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond St. Institute of Child Health in London and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Education in England. President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2018-2021.

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

  •  The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research, conference material

    January 29, 2025

    Since 2018, the Kavli Trust alone has allocated close to NOK 172 million towards child and adolescent mental health research. Some of the recipients were gathered in Oslo on October 24, 2024 – to present their projects to each other, as well as to the recipients of grants from Dam Foundation. On this page you can find video material from the conference.

  •  Compounding impact by sharing knowledge

    January 29, 2025

    Facilitating knowledge sharing between recipients of grants from the Programme on Health Research, as well as in the broader medical community, is a priority to Kavli Trust.

  •  World-class research for child and adolescent mental health

    August 29, 2024

    Since 2017, the Kavli Trust programme on health research has supported top international institutions focused on impactful findings benefitting child and adolescent mental health.

  •  12,000 patients participated in wasted research

    August 29, 2024

    Is there less wasted health research in Norway and the Nordic countries compared to the rest of the world? This is a question that the Dam Foundation has investigated. The answer is simple: No. A survey shows that 12 000 patients in Norway have participated in research that has remained unpublished.

  • £660,000 to research on social prescribing to combat loneliness among young people

    June 10, 2024

    The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research has granted NOK 9 million (£660,000), to University College London’s Department of Behavioural Science and Health and their INcreasing AdolesCent social neTworks and support (INACT) study. The aim of INACT is to provide the first robust evidence on the effectiveness of social prescribing interventions in addressing loneliness among children and adolescents.

  •  NOK 9 million to study on prevention strategies for children of parents with mental illness

    May 23, 2024

    The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research has awarded NOK 9 million to Psykiatri Skåne, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and their IRMA study. The study will delve into the experiences of children with parents dealing with mental illness, to identify preventative strategies to mitigate the risk of these children facing similar issues in the future.

  •  NOK 17,6 million to research on treatments of mental health problems in children and adolescents

    March 19, 2018

    The Kavli Trust awards 17,6 million NOK to research on treatments of mental health problems in children and adolescents. Two projects will receive funding from the Kavli Trust's programme on health research in 2018.

  • 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.

  •  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.