Wellcome Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible

Wellcome invites you to submit your proposal for its Wellcome Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible.

The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation with influencing and engagement strategies.

Proposals where the primary focus is on the current or future direct and environmentally mediated physical or mental health outcomes attributable to climate change (Haines and Ebi 2019 for definitions), making the health effects of climate change visible.

Proposals that include the three key elements of:

  • an evidence gap that can be filled in the short time available
  • a clear policy pathway to influence change
  • an engaged research approach with key stakeholders identified (including a communication strategy)

Eligibility: 

The lead applicant must:

  • Be a team leader who wants to advance transdisciplinary research on the impacts of climate change on health.
  • Have experience leading transdisciplinary teams and working in the science-policy-society interface.
  • Have prior experience of research engaging with policy partners.
  • Have knowledge brokering skills such as the ability to bring together research teams and impacted communities.
  • Actively promote a diverse, inclusive and supportive environment within their team and across their organisation.
  • Have the experience needed to drive and lead a collaborative, large-scale research project and the necessary support structures in place to enable this.
  • Have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or the guarantee of one, for the duration of the award. The contract should not be conditional on receiving this award. Lead applicants with less than three years remaining on their contract at the point of application must have secured their next position at an eligible organisation and provide a letter of support from them.
  • Be able to contribute at least 20% of their research time to this award.
  • Be based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).
  • Be based at an eligible organisation that can sign up to Wellcome’s grant conditions.

There can only be one lead applicant on applications to this scheme. Wellcome cannot make awards to teams with co-lead applicants.

Funding details:

  • up to £2.5 million
  • Up to 3 years

Read here for more information

Timelines: 

  • Webinar, 3rd of March 2025, 12:00 GMT.
  • Application deadline, 30th of April 2025.
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