Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries

Wellcome invites you to apply to the Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries call. 

This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This call builds on Wellcome’s previous funding, Advancing climate mitigation policy solutions with health co-benefits in G7 countries. This award will fund transdisciplinary research teams, led by an applicant at an LMIC-based organisation.

Research funded will investigate health effects alongside the social and economic impacts of planned or implemented greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. It will reflect local priorities and produce evidence to drive positive climate and health outcomes.

Overview: 

• Lead applicant career stage: established reseracher. The lead applicant must: 
  • Be employed by an eligible organisation in a low-or middle-income country (LMIC) that can sign up to our grant conditions. This can include a sole-trader or self-employed person’s business.
  • Be a leader in their field, with the experience needed to drive and lead a collaborative, large scale research project and the necessary support structures in place to enable this.
  • Have experience of people and research management, as appropriate for their career stage.
  • Have a permanent, open-ended, or long-term rolling contract at their host organisation for the duration of the award.
  • Be able to contribute at least 20% of your research time to this project.
• Administering organization location: Low- or middle-income countries (apart from mainland China).
• Funding amount: £500,000-£2 million per project 
• Funding duration: 2–4 years
• Coapplicants: Accepted. Each co-applicant must: 
  • Be based at an eligible organisation that can sign up to our grant conditions. This can include a sole trader/self-employed person’s business.
  • Be essential for delivery of the proposed project and make a significant contribution, for example in designing the proposed research and lead a specific component of the project. Their involvement should be justified in the application, demonstrating the value of their contribution to the team.
  • Have a guarantee of space from their administering organisation for the duration of their commitment to the project, but do not need to have a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract.
  • Be able to contribute at least 20% of their research time to this project.

Read here for more information.

Application deadline, 18th of February of 2025.