The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of how climate change affects human health. Through the program, small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: January 22, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded through the program.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems.

Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: April 24, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Through the program, small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded.

BWF is mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: January 23, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) invites applications for Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards.

The awards program provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early-career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are especially encouraged to apply, whether individually or within teams.

The program aims to prime discovery in areas that are difficult to reach through discipline-specific, silo-driven approaches. BWF will provide flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers approaching connected questions from fields that usually do not interact. Proposals should be driven by broad questions that present significant potential for evidence-based discovery. Work that includes consideration of social justice in addition to evidence-based discovery is welcome.

Grants of $375,000 over three years will be awarded. Examples of projects might include but are not limited to the role of climate change in exacerbating vector-borne-and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), using “big data” to predictively model aspects of health impacted by climate change, engineering or architectural approaches to alleviating climate-related health risks, and developing new research tools at the interface of health and climate-informed disciplines.

Applications must be submitted by a single United States or Canadian institution, which will serve as the sole payee. Proposed teams may include researchers from beyond the U.S. and Canada, including those from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Letters of intent are due August 29, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. ET and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application by October 31, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. ET.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: August 29, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. ET (Letters of Intent)

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded through the program.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: July 25, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who could together redirect the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded through the program.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: April 25, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded through the program.

BWF is mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: January 25, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) invites applications for Climate and Health Interdisciplinary Awards.

The awards program provides support for collaborative exploratory work that opens new ground for comprehensively assessing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on human health. This program will support both individual scientists and multi-investigator teams. Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows nearing their transition to independence are especially encouraged to apply, whether individually or within teams.

The program aims to prime discovery in areas that are difficult to reach through discipline-specific, silo-driven approaches. BWF will provide flexible funding for conceiving and piloting work that will grow into productive and informative collaborations among researchers approaching connected questions from fields that usually do not interact. Proposals should be driven by broad questions that present significant potential for evidence-based discovery. Work that includes consideration of social justice in addition to evidence-based discovery is welcome.

Grants of $375,000 over three years will be awarded. Examples of projects might include but are not limited to the role of climate change in exacerbating vector-borne-and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), using “big data” to predictively model aspects of health impacted by climate change, engineering or architectural approaches to alleviating climate-related health risks, and developing new research tools at the interface of health and climate-informed disciplines.

Applications must be submitted by a single United States or Canadian institution, which will serve as the sole payee. Proposed teams may include researchers from beyond the U.S. and Canada, including those from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Letters of intent are due August 31, 2023, and upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application by November 1, 2023.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: August 31, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET (Letters of Intent)

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

The fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. A total of $1 million in small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded over the next two years.

BWF is mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: July 12, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

To that end, the fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Through the program, small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 will be awarded.

BWF is mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: January 12, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

To that end, the fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Over the next two years, BWF will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 toward achieving this goal.

BWF is mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields, including epidemiology, public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

Applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: October 13, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

To that end, the fund invites applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Over the next two years, BWF will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 toward achieving this goal.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields including epidemiology, public health, and demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or new interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

To be eligible, applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: June 29, 2022 4:00 p.m. ET

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund serves and strengthens society by nurturing a diverse group of leaders in biomedical sciences to improve human health through education and powering discovery in frontiers of greatest need.

To that end, the fund is inviting applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants program, which aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. Over the next two years, BWF will dedicate $1 million to supporting small, early-stage grants of between $2,500 and $50,000 toward achieving this goal.

BWF is particularly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as population-focused fields including epidemiology, public health, and demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or new interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that immediately impact human health and healthcare delivery. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.

To be eligible, applicants must be nonprofit organizations or degree-granting institutions in the United States or Canada.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Burroughs Wellcome Fund website.

Deadline: April 11, 2022 4:00 p.m. ET

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