Wellcome’s Mental Health Award: Looking Backwards, Moving Forward

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Wellcome’s Mental Health Award: Looking Backwards, Moving Forward – Understanding how interventions for anxiety, depression & psychosis work

About this event

Wellcome is launching a Mental Health Award, to advance understanding of how interventions for anxiety, depression, and psychosis work. In this free webinar, you’ll get a chance to hear about Wellcome’s new mental health strategy and this new funding call.

By taking a back (or reverse) translation approach, Wellcome will fund projects that start with one (or more) effective active ingredient(s) and work backwards from the evidence to understand why/how the chosen ingredient(s) works. The insights gained through this work will (either directly or in time) inform the development of new and improved early interventions.

By ‘active ingredients’, Wellcome mean those aspects of an intervention that drive resolution or reduction of symptoms, are conceptually well defined, and link to specific hypothesised mechanisms of action.

Who can apply to this Mental Health Award?

This call is for teams of researchers working across any discipline of relevance to mental health science.

This is a global call, meaning that applicants from anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China) can apply.

Applicants from a range of organisations can apply, including from higher education institutions, research institutes, non-academic healthcare organisations, not-for-profit organisations, and companies.

What is the level and duration of funding for this Mental Health Award?

We welcome applications for projects of any duration up to 8 years and any size up to £5 million. Applicants should ask for the resources and time they need to deliver their project.

Brought to you by the Wellcome Mental Health Team and The Mental Elf. This free webinar will:

- Introduce Wellcome’s Mental Health strategy
- Introduce the Mental Health Award: Looking Backward, Moving Forward
- Describe what we mean by lived experience involvement
- Discuss the specifics of this funding call, including next steps
- Allow space for Q&A

Our expert panel:

- Prof Miranda Wolpert, Director of Mental Health at Wellcome
- Dr Cat Sebastian, Head of Evidence for Mental Health at Wellcome
- Dr Inês Pote, Senior Research Manager in the Mental Health Evidence team at Wellcome
- Members of the Lived Experience team at Wellcome

Further information & key links:

Dr Cat Sebastian - Wellcome’s Mental Health Award: Looking Backwards, Moving Forward. LinkedIn blog, published 10 Feb 2022:

Active ingredient commissions:

2020 active ingredients report:

Mental Health Award landing page:

Key dates:

- Deadline for submitting preliminary applications: 17:00 BST on Tuesday 24 May 2022
- Shortlisting of preliminary applications: June 2022
- Shortlisted applicants invited to submit a full application: week commencing 27 June 2022
- Deadline for submitting full applications: 17:00 BST on Tuesday 13 September 2022
- Interviews: November 2022
- Decision: December 2022