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Our vision is a world in which no one is held back by mental health problems.

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Our vision is a world in which no one is held back by mental health problems.

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Mental health problems are among the biggest causes of disability in the world. Living with a mental health condition results in lower life expectancy, social and economic disadvantage, and a higher risk of social isolation.

While some treatments work for some people, some of the time, we urgently need to find better approaches that can help more people globally. Wellcome is helping to build an ambitious, integrated field of mental health science that will combine strengths from many areas of expertise including lived experience.

We’re funding research that increases scientific understanding of how brain, body and environment interact, and develops better ways to respond effectively to the most common and most severe conditions: anxiety, depression and psychosis.

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Over the next 30 years we will help drive a step-change in mental health science to find more effective mental health solutions. Right now, we are:

  • supporting the mental health science community to agree common ways to measure mental health outcomes, so that researchers can compare and consider results across different studies and disciplines
  • encouraging and enabling connections across the research community
  • involving people with lived experience every step of the way so that the ways we address mental health challenges are meaningful to those most affected.

Wellcome also funds discovery research in a broad range of disciplines, including mental health. Insights and tools from this research will contribute to solving this health challenge, as well as increasing broader understanding of life, health and wellbeing.

Read more about Wellcome's ambitions for 2022 and beyond.

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To help deliver our vision across three key health challenges, we support research through a combination of open calls and direct funding approaches.  

We work with and fund a diverse group of people who can bring innovative and creative insights to these urgent health challenges. 

We often have calls for specific research projects as part of our mental health work, open to applicants and teams in any country. Our funding covers both back-translation (working backwards from the evidence of what works to understand why) and forward-translation (developing new approaches from theories developed out of basic discovery research). 

This page will be updated regularly with the latest mental health funding information and the opportunities we have available for discovery research.

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We want the broadest range of people to contribute to and benefit from equitable solutions to mental health problems. That’s why we work with researchers, people with lived experience, policy makers, activists, community leaders and businesses in all parts of the world.

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