Wellcome

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation, supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. They support discovery research into life, health, and well-being, and they’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health.

They do this by investing in research, engaging with people and influencing for policy change. Between 2022 and 2032, they’re spending £16 billion on research and advocacy supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.

Established in 1936, Wellcome is politically and financially independent, using the returns from their investment portfolio to fund their work.

Through their strategic programs, as well as other activities and major initiatives, they invest in a broad range of research around the world, connect people with different experiences and expertise, and advocate for evidence-based policies and practices. For example:

• Their broad Discovery Research programme explores open questions about life-health and well-being, generating new knowledge that could transform health.
• Their free museum and library, the Wellcome Collection, explores the past, present, and future of health and human experience.
• Their Infectious Disease programme is accelerating the discovery and development of interventions to combat infectious disease in the most affected communities.
• Their Climate and Health programme is supporting research to put health at the heart of climate change action.
• Their Mental Health programme is working to enable a step change in early interventions for anxiety, depression, and psychosis.