Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Award: up to $50,000
Deadline: 1.22.26 with all information to the Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) by 1.14.26
Interested? Please complete the Office of Sponsored Programs Research Request Form ASAP to be assigned a research administrator.
Overview
This grant focuses on seed funding for projects that foster collaborations across disciplines that look at how climate change impacts human health, including mental health.
Funder is interested in activities that build connections between basic and early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields, including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions aimed at reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for healthcare, care delivery, and biomedical research.
Important Information
January deadline is for Q1. There are rolling submission dates, through June.
The funder explains what they are looking for in this ten-minute YouTube presentation.
Process
This is a single step application process.
• Interested parties should immediately complete the SPA Proposal Request Form to be assigned a research administrator.
• It will be managed by SPA, and you will work with your assigned research administrator.
• All required information, in final form, needs to be submitted to SPA no later than five business days before submission deadline.