Wellcome Trust: Climate Impacts Awards
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Category: Climate Change,
Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that wants everyone to benefit from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. They support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
The aim of the Climate Impact Awards is to make the impacts of climate change visible across a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes in order to increase the profile of the evidence, advance impactful narratives on the effects of climate change on health, and use these to drive urgent policy and practice change at scale. This will include generating and synthesizing evidence (including across multiple sites/countries) on under-researched but significant health issues arising from climate impacts that fill a policy and practice-relevant evidence gap and/or present localizing knowledge to specific contexts where evidence is missing.
This program will fund transdisciplinary teams (e.g., researchers, policymakers, practitioners, community stakeholders, communications, and public engagement experts) with capacity to use evidence to drive climate action. Research that serves the expressed needs of at-risk populations and communities with high exposure and vulnerabilities to the health impacts of climate change will be prioritized.
A webinar will be held on March 3, 2025 at 5pm MT for more information. Sign up here.