We create change by bringing together expertise across disciplines, sectors and systems to ensure evidence informs the decisions that shape health.
Our work is collaborative and focused on outcomes. By connecting researchers, policymakers, industry, healthcare leaders and patients, we tackle challenges no single organisation can solve alone – and turn shared insight into action.
Our priorities
Together, these priorities help us support researchers, strengthen the health research system and improve lives through science.
We support researchers and careers
We fund, mentor and support researchers at every stage — helping people build independent careers, grow ideas and lead the discoveries that improve health.
Our grants and careers support
We shape policy through evidence
We provide independent, trusted advice that informs and challenges decision-making, helping governments, the NHS, research funders and partners act on the best available evidence.
We turn discovery into action
We connect expertise across academia, healthcare, industry and policy to help new discoveries break through into practice, policy and public health.
How we're turning breakthroughs into patient benefit
We build trust in science
We create the space for open, informed dialogue between policymakers, our partners and patients and the public. Together we shape trustworthy information and health and science decisions.
We connect the medical sciences community
Through our Fellowship, our Forum and wider networks, we bring people together to share expertise, shape debate and work collectively to drive progress.
How we are funded
As an independent charity, we rely on a range of funding to advance medical science and improve health. Alongside grants from the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the Wellcome Trust, our work is funded through subscriptions from our Fellows and generous voluntary donations from companies, charitable trusts and individuals.
This funding helps us remain independent and sustain work that connects research, policy and practice, ensuring that evidence informs decisions that improve health. If you would like to help us achieve better health for all, read about ways you can support us.
The Academy of Medical Sciences is a registered charity in England and Wales (no. 1185329). Read more about our income and expenditure on the Charity Commission’s Register of Charities.