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This scoping report offers a broad overview of the current research landscape relating sleep and circadian rhythms to mental health, with a focus on depression, anxiety…
This report is a thorough investigation of digital tools and features that support the meaningful interaction of researchers and participants throughout the research…
Professor Ed Watkins and Dhriti Sarkar explain how to bridge the gaps in our understanding of anxiety-related problems and improve the lives of millions of people living with…
This paper outlines three areas – global coordination and leadership; financing and how to address key gaps in pandemic infrastructure – that will have the biggest impact on…
This report identifies what we do and don’t know about how interventions for youth anxiety and depression work. It also includes recommendations for future research to fill…
Health was everywhere at COP26, but often invisible. Now, the climate action that follows must be led by science that reaches those who need it, and confidently bridges the…
The Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug-resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC) brings together a range of international experts to share expertise and take action to…
Lassa fever is now on the priority list of the World Health Organization and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness. But we need to continue to fill in the gaps in research.
It's a year since the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began. If we want to prevent future outbreaks lasting a year, the world needs to address…
Exercise has been shown to improve depression, but we don’t know how it works exactly. We spoke to Professor Jonathan Roiser about his new research study that could help fill…
Critics warned against the UK policy of leaving a longer gap between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. Now we have more data, what…
What will it take to tackle infectious diseases more fairly? Alex Pym sets out Wellcome’s vision for backing science, partnerships and access so life-saving vaccines and…
A child-friendly treatment is helping protect preschool-aged children from schistosomiasis for the first time. In Tanzania, researchers, health workers and communities are…
This report sets out the case for system‑wide reform to protect pregnant women from rising temperatures in the UK. The report reviews the evidence on heat and pregnancy,…
Health representatives from national governments and agencies, civil society, the private sector and global philanthropies will meet in Ghana next week, to focus on ambitious…
Research can fill knowledge gaps in combatting diseases, but without understanding the context and making findings usable for policy makers, those most affected will never…
Data has the power to transform mental health science, but we need better tools to harness its potential. Wellcome's Mental Health Data Prize aims to address this gap. Now,…