Wellcome Data

Angela Yao

Mar 6

Digital sensors for (mental) health research

At Wellcome, we’re exploring how we can advance the utility of digital sensors for mental health research.

Gwydion Williams

Nov 28, 2023

Navigating ethical risks for mental health research data: a dynamic framework

‘Equity’, ‘inclusive research’, ‘promise for mental health’.

Emily Jesper-Mir and Rebecca Asher

Nov 27, 2023

Funding equitable data science for better health in Africa

This article was co-authored by Grace Annan-Callcott & Ekin Bolukbasi

Ekin Bolukbasi

May 15, 2023

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How to Parse Millions of PDF Documents Asynchronously with Apache Tika

Over the years, the Wellcome Trust has received a huge number of grant applications and funded thousands of research projects. As a result…

Antonia Langfelder

Mar 22, 2023

Help us advance environmentally sustainable research

The Research Sustainability (ReSus) Project

Talia Caplan

Oct 26, 2022

What would the perfect mental health dataset look like?

tl:dr please respond to Wellcome’s survey about how longitudinal datasets can best serve mental health research by clicking here.

Suzi Gage

Oct 20, 2022

3 key learnings about lived experience involvement

A part of Wellcome Trust’s vision is a world where no one is held back by mental health problems. So we have been working on…

Shuranjeet Singh

Sep 7, 2022

Finding location entities in Wellcome grants

This blog post was written jointly by Matt Upson at MantisNLP and Arne Robben at Wellcome.

Arne Robben

Jul 18, 2022

Open-source machine learning models for Medical Subject Headings

Last month we released open-source machine learning models that allow automated tagging of grant applications (as well as academic…

Antonio Campello

Jul 11, 2022

Bringing new data into mental health research

At Wellcome, we’re interested in making new data sources available for mental health research. Our goal? To unlock research that improves…

Matthew Brown

Apr 28, 2022

FAIRware: towards FAIR community metadata practices

Written by Dr Michelle Barker, Open Science Consultant, and Mark Musen, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of the Stanford…

Raphael Sonabend

Apr 19, 2022

Building a climate-sensitive infectious disease community of practice

Wellcome has released a Request for Proposals for up to £2M for up to 5 years.

Raphael Sonabend

Apr 11, 2022

Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize now open to teams in South Africa & the UK

The Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize is open for applications from teams in the UK and South Africa.

Ekin Bolukbasi

Apr 4, 2022

Health data for climate research: opportunities from longitudinal population studies

Global climate change is intensifying and already affecting human health. Extreme weather events are breaking meteorological records; a…

Isabel Fletcher

Mar 30, 2022

Living with pain: how can we connect the dots in existing data?

We’re looking into how data science could help address important gaps in the field of pain research. Specifically, we’re thinking about…

Erika Loggin

Jan 27, 2022

Lacuna Fund: Machine learning for climate change and health

Climate change is a health crisis. No part of the world is immune from its harmful and deadly effects — but that doesn’t mean the impacts…

Talia Caplan

Jan 11, 2022

How the R number took over our lives — and what we can learn from it

The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has, no doubt, brought back many memories (and anxieties) from earlier in the pandemic —…

Gavin Freeguard

Dec 15, 2021

Tagging biomedical grants with 29K tags

In a previous post we spoke about a neural architecture we developed for classifying our grants with ~5K disease tags from the MeSH…

Nick Sorros

Dec 13, 2021

The Wellcome Trust is using trustworthy data science to make better decisions, and to transform how science solves urgent health challenges and makes discoveries.

Investigating how to innovate mental health clinical trials