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The latest instalment of Contagious Cities explores Hong Kong’s experience of pandemics and the cultural and social impacts of disease on its community.

Covid-19 is here to stay. However, with careful management we can prevent future outbreaks and move from pandemic to endemic. But what does…

20.5 million children hadn’t received essential vaccinations in 2022, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.  While that marks…

A research agenda outlining priorities to inform the direction of future research on Long Covid.

For a long time, academia has emphasised individual achievement over teamwork and collegiality. We want to change that. 

Gabriel Leung, University of Hong Kong, and Arup K. Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, will join Wellcome's Board of Governors in May 2021.

A major international collaboration including New York, London, Hong Kong and Geneva, exploring the physical, social and cultural effects of infectious disease.

Our international cultural programme explored local stories of contagion in Berlin, Geneva, Hong Kong and New York.

Alan Dangour, Director of Climate and Health at Wellcome, responds to Met Office report warning of 45 degree heat in UK and month long heatwaves

The most in-depth research ever into what the public think about patient records being used by commercial organisations has revealed that the majority are in favour as long…

Wellcome Trust survey on research culture in the UK and globally exposes the stark pressures faced by many who work in research.

Researchers may well identify a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 before too long, but all that fantastic work could count for nothing unless we also invest in the next…

Being mugged or randomly attacked in the street often leaves people paranoid and distrustful of others long after the attack, according to a study published today. The…

We’ve made two new appointments to Wellcome's Board of Governors, the external experts who oversee all our work and provide support and challenge to our…

Bedlam has long been a byword for chaos. Now a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection opens the doors to the historic asylum from which it derives. Through the lens of the…

The Opera Group collaborates with the Institute of Psychiatry on ‘The Lion’s Face’, a new opera about dementia.

We’ve awarded £12 million, in partnership with DFID, to speed up global Covid-19 research and development and help low- and middle-income countries prepare. But more…

The Wellcome Image Awards 2011, celebrating the most striking and technically excellent images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past 18 months, were…

Ethnicity categories in UK healthcare are inconsistent and not always accurate. This has real-world consequences, like how we estimate the risks of Covid-19 for different…

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and National…