Climate Impacts Awards

The Climate Impacts Awards is a Wellcome funding scheme that supports transdisciplinary research to make the health effects of climate change visible and to drive urgent climate policy action. It funds projects that generate or synthesise evidence on climate-related physical and mental health outcomes, and that articulate a clear theory of change and policy engagement. The scheme supports research that includes economic analysis of health damages from climate change and requires engaged research approaches involving policy-makers and affected communities. Awards are cohort-based and competitive, with around 10–15 grants made.

Grant funding up to £2.5 million per award for up to three years; cohort membership and support for policy engagement (interviews for shortlisted applicants and final funding decisions).

Lead applicants should be mid-career or established researchers; teams must be transdisciplinary with climate, health and economic expertise and include coapplicants (up to seven) with at least one applicant based at each study site for multi-site projects. Applications are open globally except for mainland China.

Single-stage full proposals only; lead applicant with up to seven coapplicants; apply via the Wellcome Funding platform; shortlisted applicants will be interviewed.