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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 a growing public health concern, with anxiety and depression among the leading causes of illness and disability, affecting millions globally each year and causing significant social and economic impacts. 

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 define a new era of mental health science that will speed progress by combining strengths from many areas of research. 

We’re funding cutting-edge science to understand how brain, body and environment interact in mental health problems, to unpick how successful interventions work, and to develop treatments and approaches that are more effective and more personalised. 

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Over the next 30 years, we will help find the next generations of treatments and approaches to help prevent or treat mental ill health.  

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. We’re encouraging and enabling connections across the research community, and 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 what we want to achieve in the mental health space in the next 30 years.

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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.  

We’re currently working on: 

  • anxiety and depression in young people: we’ve commissioned research into what makes a difference in preventing and treating anxiety and depression in young people worldwide 

  • workplace mental health: we’re collaborating with businesses and researchers to understand what type of approaches could support employees’ mental health 

  • building a global mental health databank: we want to develop a sustainable and fair global databank to collect rich data about which approaches could help people better manage their mental health 

Read more about our work.

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  • Dr Kate Martin, Lived Experience and Public Engagement Lead, Wellcome
  • Dr Cat Sebastian, Evidence Lead, Wellcome