Search results

As world braces for El Niño – can science help to limit the catastrophic health effects of soaring global temperatures?

The world’s largest health information management system has been awarded funding to integrate climate and health data to help predict health impacts of climate change. 

Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in ‘Malaria…

Some of our funding is open to applicants based in low- or middle-income countries. Review a list of countries with low-income or middle-income economies, compiled by the…

A ground-breaking new project from Wellcome Collection, Art in Global Health, is bringing artists and scientists together in six Wellcome Trust-funded research programmes…

The Wellcome Trust is to offer financial support for two students per year for three years to undertake a postgraduate qualification in science journalism at City University…

Wellcome announce funding for 11 transdisciplinary teams across 17 countries to investigate the health impacts of climate change

Miracles & Charms, Wellcome Collection’s autumn exhibition programme, opens today, exploring the extraordinary in the everyday with a pair of shows. Drawing lines between…

A unique collaboration between scientists, public health workers and police has led to the arrest by the Chinese authorities of alleged traders of fake antimalarial drugs in…

Drug-resistant malaria parasites have spread to critical border regions of South-east Asia, seriously threatening global malaria control and elimination programmes, according…

Wellcome Global Monitor 2020 Chapter 1

This is chapter 5 of the Wellcome Global Monitor 2018.

Climate change is making the planet hotter. We’ve awarded £17.5 million to research teams around the world who are investigating ways we can adapt.

The Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 commissioned 17 young people from Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa empowering them to explore health and wellbeing in their…

In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat. Ed Yong reports.

A study funded by the Wellcome Trust and aimed at developing a genetic map of Britain has begun to shed light on how the ancient populations of Britain – the Celts, Anglo…

A new long-term vision to develop the next generation of African health researchers has been announced today with an initial £40 million five-year commitment from the…

The muscle weakness and coordination problems sometimes seen in cases of neonatal diabetes - a rare, inherited form of diabetes - are caused by problems in the brain rather…

The brains of males and females, and how they use them, may be far more different then previously thought, at least in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, according to…

The first global malaria risk map to be developed in 40 years has highlighted the 2.37 billion people at risk from one of the world's deadliest diseases. The findings of the…