Following up on our inaugural report publication, we have published our first prospectus of fundable projects: a curated portfolio of evolution-informed mental health programmes ready for donor support. To our knowledge, it is the first document of its kind: a specific, costed list of research, clinical and training initiatives grounded in evolutionary thinking about mental health.
The prospectus at publication details nineteen programmes. Fifteen are project-focused, targeting specific populations or disorders, ranging from postnatal depression and PTSD to adolescent self-harm, eating disorders, addiction, and the wider question of how to triage depression treatment in primary care. Four are person-focused: student small grants, research visits, summer research placements, and fully funded PhD and postdoctoral training, designed to seed and sustain the talent pipeline that will run and iterate on the field for decades to come. Each entry carries a cost estimate, a timeline running from first credible data to long-term outcome validation, and a short account of the translational outcomes it could deliver.
The prospectus is the operational companion to Before Evolution: The State of Mental Health, FEMH’s inaugural report published earlier this year. Where the report sets out the case for an evolution-informed transformation of the mental health sciences, the prospectus is the concrete follow-on: a list of things to do, costed and ready to fund.
Read the prospectus: prospectus.femh.foundation. To discuss funding a specific programme, contact us.