Wellcome Trust: Transforming early intervention for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. 11 November 2025
ABOUT
Funding for projects that robustly test the real-world effectiveness and assess implementation strategies of scalable transformative early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.
The team must include expertise in mental health, lived experience, clinical trials, statistics, health economics and implementation science and must include implementation partners.
At least one implementation partner must be included as a co-applicant. Implementation partners can include individuals from national or local government agencies, healthcare providers, education providers, non-government organisations, community groups or international organisations.
The team must also include either a lead applicant or co-applicant based in each country where the research will take place.
Deadline: 11 November 2025
AMOUNT
This award is structured in two phases:
- This first phase will provide teams with £200,000 to build their teams and develop their detailed proposal for their research study over 12 months. The research must take place in the UK or a low- and middle-income country. The proposal must capture multiple outcomes that are relevant to people with lived experience and implementing partners, including mental health outcomes, functional outcomes and full economic evaluation.
- All funded teams from the Foundation Phase will be invited to apply for the Impact Phase. Wellcome expect the award amount for the Impact Phase to be between £5 million and £8 million and the duration to be up to 5 years.
ELIGIBILITY
Applications are welcome from anywhere in the world (except mainland China) and from any relevant discipline.