We work with communities, partners and decision makers to bring about real-world change.
Creating a healthier future for everyone requires collaborative action across society. Starting with the most affected communities, we bring together people with different expertise and experience who can ensure that research-based solutions to urgent health challenges meet people’s needs in the real world.
We engage with people across the world to better understand and share different experiences of health, science and social change by:
Wellcome Global Monitor is the world’s largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges. We provide open access to the evidence it generates to inform policies and funding decisions and help researchers consider the social and cultural context of their work.
Since 2007, visitors to our free museum and library have been exploring the past, present and future of health through collections, exhibitions and events. We seek opportunities for everyone to contribute different forms of knowledge towards a healthier and more equitable future. This informs the research and interventions Wellcome supports, and deeper understandings of health across society.
This project looks beyond the usual ways of approaching community engagement. It explores people’s participation in health research more broadly to understand how relationships could be more reciprocal, how the benefits of new knowledge can be shared more equitably and what is required for diverse communities to participate as experts in the production and exchange of knowledge.
To ensure that health research, policies and solutions benefit the people and communities whose health has most to gain, we work in partnership with others worldwide who have the power to bring about change.
We collaborate with governments, funders, commercial and cultural organisations and communities most affected by health challenges.
Our advocacy work has directly impacted health and research. We've improved how the world prepares for and responds to pandemics and supported UK health research after Brexit by staying in Horizon Europe.
We provide evidence and expertise across key health issues and make the case for change informed by science and the communities most affected. For example, we outlined evidence of the impacts of climate change on health and opportunities to deliver health centred climate action, and set out a vision for a research- and innovation-powered NHS.
In 2024 we launched a $300mn partnership with the Novo Nordisk and Gates Foundations to support science to tackle a series of global health challenges and build healthier futures. The partnership will support science, innovation and health solutions that are accessible and affordable to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Policy Lab provides a space to experiment with new, more creative, approaches to developing policy and engaging with decision makers so we can have a greater impact in delivering our mission across climate and health, discovery research, infectious disease and mental health.
Find current contract opportunities to support Wellcome's mission to improve human health – including an overview of each project, who can apply and how.
