# Wellcome Trust **Domain:** Biomedical Research / Philanthropy / Public Health **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Public Health Modeling|public health]], climate and health, [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **Wellcome Trust** is a charitable foundation supporting health and biomedical research, including work on infectious disease, mental health and climate-related health risks. ## Corpus Context Wellcome belongs to the funding layer of collective intelligence. Research priorities, data infrastructures and institutional capacity are partly shaped by the organizations able to sustain work beyond short commercial cycles. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Wellcome](http://www.wellcome.org/)