The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change visible across a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes in order to drive urgent climate policy and practice change at scale.
This scheme will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects, combining evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement. Teams may include researchers, policymakers, practitioners, community stakeholders, communications, and public engagement experts with capacity to use evidence to drive climate action.
Wellcome expects that teams will 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 synthesising 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 localising knowledge to specific contexts where evidence is missing.
Career stage: Established researcher, Mid-career researcher
Where the host organisation of the lead applicant is based: Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China and countries that are the target of international sanctions)
Level of funding: Up to £2.5 million. In exceptional cases we may award above this
Duration of funding: Up to 3 years
Key dates
- Webinar about the scheme: 20 February 2023 (13:00 GMT)
- Application deadline: 13 April 2023 (17:00 GMT)