The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world: what they fund and how they distribute their funds

Table 2 Annual health research expenditures of key funders of Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Funding organization	Country	Year for which funding data were collected	Expenditures on health research (in million 2013 US $)	Specificity of the funding data^a	Research area that the funding data refer to^a	Reporting format of the funding data^a
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)	USA	2012	186.4	II	A	1
UK Department for International Development (DFID)	GBR	2014	97.5	III	A	2
Grand Challenges Canada	CAN	2013	46.3	I	A	1
Dutch Directorate General of Development Cooperation (DGIS)	NLD	2012	11.7	I	A	1
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)	DEU	2011	0.9	I	A	1
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD)	CAN	2011	0.8	I	A	1
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes (MAEE)	FRA	2011	0.7	I	A	1
L'Agence Française de Développement (AFD)	FRA	2013	0.0	–	–	–

For DFID, USAID and Grand Challenges Canada data on annual health research expenditures were publicly available. For AFD data were acquired through a personal communication. For all other organizations, no data were available or could be provided. For these organizations, annual health research expenditures were approximated by extracting expenditure figures from G-FINDER, which is limited to health research focused on product development [54]
^aSee note ^a under Table 1