The Mental Health Award: Using physical activity and circadian-based interventions to reduce anxiety and depression in young people from the Wellcome Trust supports research teams in mechanistically informed trials of interventions for anxiety and depression in young people aged 10-18 years in the UK and/or Africa. Projects should build on existing mechanistic evidence to develop more precise and effective early interventions that have the potential to scale.
Applications are open to multi-disciplinary teams of researchers based anywhere in the world, except for mainland China. The research on the intervention must take place in the UK and/or Africa. The grant provides 1 to 4 million GBP for 3 to 4 years (may include indirect costs).
Applications open the week of April 13, 2026. The scope check deadline is June 29, 2026. Applications close on July 14, 2026.