46 posts
By Jack Nash
12 December 2025
Explore research published on Wellcome Open Research that examines the intersection of climate and health, including active travel policies, climate-sensitive diseases, and health equity in climate action.
By Jack Nash
31 July 2025
Millions of people are held back by mental health problems. Interventions aren’t effective enough for everyone, have trade-offs, and face challenges when scaling globally. Barriers to collaboration are hindering progress. From improving our understanding of anxiety, depression, and psychosis, to developing new effective interventions, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, the Wellcome Trust is working towards a world […]
By Jack Nash
30 May 2025
The Wellcome Trust is dedicated to improving understanding of infectious diseases and developing new interventions. By targeting specific research problems that others are not prioritising, Wellcome-funded researchers can channel their resources, skills and expertise to drive impact where it is most needed.
Wellcome Open Research has many Gateways on the topic of infectious diseases. In this blog post, we highlight some of the Gateways and recent research that are helping to further our understanding of infectious diseases worldwide.
By Jack Nash
06 June 2023
In honor of World Environment Day, we’re exploring how climate change, the environment, and global health are linked, and some of the latest research published on this topic.
By Guest Author
31 May 2023
Living evidence plays a key role in fast-moving scientific fields and global health situations, including COVID-19. We spoke to two Wellcome Open Research authors about their work in this field.
By Guest Author
19 April 2023
This World Malaria Day, we explore how new genomic data can support malaria control worldwide in an interview with Dr Richard Pearson, Wellcome Sanger Institute and MalariaGEN.
By Guest Author
26 September 2022
In this conversation with Thomas Battram, Senior Research Associate in Molecular Epidemiology at University of Bristol, we discuss the scope and importance of the field of epigenetics and the strengths, innovations, and implications of the EWAS Catalog, a rich and accessible database of epigenome-wide association studies.
By Guest Author
18 August 2022
In this conversation with Sepeedeh Saleh (Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme Fellow), we discuss the use of a simple cookstove intervention in Malawi combined with ethnographic research to obtain richer insights on fuel and stove use practices and community perceptions.