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Mental Health Award: Accelerating scalable digital mental health interventions

Wellcome Trust

This call will fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital interventions to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis. Teams must have the research expertise required to drive the proposed research, an organisation which can take the intervention to scale (whether a company or not-for-profit) and lived experience experts. This call is open to interventions designed to lead to reductions in symptom(s) and/or functional impairments related to anxiety, depression or psychosis. We expect teams to already have a minimum viable product and feasibility data for their intervention.

Specialties

Artificial Intelligence

Neurosciences

Technology Development

Mental Health

Neurosurgery

Telemedicine

Eligibility Requirements

This is a funding call for team awards. Applications must include a lead applicant and coapplicants.

Research Organizations from anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).

The award will be held by a lead applicant from an eligible administering organisation, on behalf of a team of coapplicants. Wellcome cannot make awards to teams with co-lead applicants.

The team (lead and coapplicants) must include:

The research expertise required to drive the proposed research, as lead and/or coapplicants.
At least one individual from an organisation that can take the intervention to scale (company or not-for-profit) listed as an applicant (lead or coapplicant). The organisation must be able to demonstrate that they have the expertise and ability to take the intervention to scale. Indicators include but are not limited to:
- previous track record of the organisation or of key personnel including successful fundraising appropriate to the aims, stage and size of the organisation (this does not need to be in the field of mental health)
- business plan (should include a sustainability plan for the product)
- demonstrated links to suitable development partners and relevant networks (for example, letters of support or evidence of previous collaborations)
People with lived experience of mental health problems. This can be as lead applicants, coapplicants and/or team members. The overall team should also include the skills needed to effectively involve and collaborate with lived experience experts.
Justification for the inclusion of each applicant on the proposal.
The necessary expertise, technical skills and organisational support to deliver the proposed research. This should be multidisciplinary where appropriate, for example, expertise in mental health, lived experience, data science, implementation science, ethics, social science or clinical trials.
Coapplicants based in each country where the research will take place. If the proposed research is planned to take place only in a low- or middle-income country, the lead applicant must be affiliated with an eligible organisation based in that country.
An appropriate number of team members to deliver the proposal within the timeframe. This will depend on the proposed research. Teams must consist of at least two applicants (including the lead applicant) and will typically not exceed eight applicants (excluding collaborators). There is no limit to the size of overall team (for example, including staff, sub-contractors or collaborators).

The team (lead and coapplicants) can include multiple researchers as required for the proposed research. Researchers may be embedded in a company, not-for-profit or a separate entity such as a higher education institution.

We encourage lead applicants to put together diverse teams that include coapplicants at any stage of their career, including those who are new to the field of mental health science.

We do not require applications to include a UK or other high-income country partner and do not prioritise such applications over those that only include low- or middle-income country (LMICs) partners.