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.
Scheme at a glance
Lead applicant career stage: Mid-career researcher, Established researcher
Administering organisation location: Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China)
Funding amount: Up to £2.5 million
Funding duration: Up to 3 years
Coapplicants: Accepted
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 change at scale.
The Climate Impacts Awards incorporate the three key elements of Wellcome’s approach:
- Funding research
- Advocating for policy change
- Engaging with people
This scheme aims to make the impacts of climate change on health visible. There are many reasons the impacts of climate change could be invisible.
These include but are not limited to:
- distance: decision makers not being based where the impacts are happening
- ideology: political polarisation results in missing voices, disinformation or lack of information
- unseen: some of the climate impacts of environmental drivers of health outcomes (for example, certain chemicals, pollutants or microscopic organisms) may not be visible and therefore may be ignored
- linkage: the links between climate change and health effects not being explicitly made or understood
- low priority: climate change's effects on health are not given much focus due to competing priorities, unconvincing analyses and communications challenges
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025
Visit the Wellcome site to read more and apply