SAVE

SAVE is a $50M Wellcome Leap program focused on the global surgical workforce shortage. It targets the gap in access to essential and emergency surgery, which the source material ties to roughly 1.5 million preventable deaths each year. The program is active and already in execution, with Thomas G Weiser, MD, MPH, leading the work from Stanford. Its funding goes toward surgical training and certification pathways, minimally invasive surgical technology, and assessment tools. The stated goals are concrete: double the annual number of surgical providers trained within a decade, add 100,000 providers globally, and cut annual postoperative deaths by 1 million. The program runs as a one-off cooperative agreement, and individuals are excluded while for-profit, nonprofit, university, and research teams can participate. SAVE fits teams that can combine workforce training, clinical practice, and device or evaluation work in one coordinated effort. It is not presented as a fresh open call; performers are already in place, so the program reads as an execution stage rather than a new solicitation. The strongest fit is a group that can move from training design to measurable surgical outcomes under a single delivery plan.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.