Wellcome Trust
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Our mission
We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
What we do
Wellcome improves health for everyone by funding research, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building global partnerships.
Collaborative research that involves a diverse range of people from different fields of interest is key to progress in health science – and to achieving our aim of fostering a healthier, happier, world.
But many researchers feel they lack the time, finances, and creative environments they need to make breakthroughs.
That’s why we’re committed to funding ambitious global research projects that will transform our understanding of life, health, and wellbeing.
Researchers work in a laboratory at The Crick Institute in London
Discovery research
Discovery research leads to new insights into our life, health and wellbeing. Researchers from any background have the freedom and flexibility to ask bold and creative questions that will improve our health.
Plus, we’re taking on the biggest health challenges facing humanity – climate and health, infectious disease, and mental health – to find urgent solutions and accelerate preventions.
Testing soil health in Western Kenya
Climate and health
Our vision is a world in which climate change does not harm health in the communities it affects most.
Residents in Mexico City wash their hands as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19.
Infectious disease
Our vision is a world in which escalating infectious diseases are under control in the communities most affected.
A woman wearing a swimming cap swims in cold water with her eyes closed
Mental health
Our vision is a world in which no one is held back by mental health problems.
How we're doing it
We’re spending £16 billion by 2032 on projects across a range of academic disciplines – including physical and social sciences, and the humanities – to ensure researchers have what they need to be ambitious, creative, and make new discoveries.
As a global charitable foundation, we want researchers worldwide to engage with us, partner with us, and apply for funding for pioneering projects that will help to solve the most pressing health challenges facing humanity.
We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
What we do
Wellcome improves health for everyone by funding research, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building global partnerships.
Collaborative research that involves a diverse range of people from different fields of interest is key to progress in health science – and to achieving our aim of fostering a healthier, happier, world.
But many researchers feel they lack the time, finances, and creative environments they need to make breakthroughs.
That’s why we’re committed to funding ambitious global research projects that will transform our understanding of life, health, and wellbeing.
Researchers work in a laboratory at The Crick Institute in London
Discovery research
Discovery research leads to new insights into our life, health and wellbeing. Researchers from any background have the freedom and flexibility to ask bold and creative questions that will improve our health.
Plus, we’re taking on the biggest health challenges facing humanity – climate and health, infectious disease, and mental health – to find urgent solutions and accelerate preventions.
Testing soil health in Western Kenya
Climate and health
Our vision is a world in which climate change does not harm health in the communities it affects most.
Residents in Mexico City wash their hands as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19.
Infectious disease
Our vision is a world in which escalating infectious diseases are under control in the communities most affected.
A woman wearing a swimming cap swims in cold water with her eyes closed
Mental health
Our vision is a world in which no one is held back by mental health problems.
How we're doing it
We’re spending £16 billion by 2032 on projects across a range of academic disciplines – including physical and social sciences, and the humanities – to ensure researchers have what they need to be ambitious, creative, and make new discoveries.
As a global charitable foundation, we want researchers worldwide to engage with us, partner with us, and apply for funding for pioneering projects that will help to solve the most pressing health challenges facing humanity.
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