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Table 5 Overview of funding provided by the 10 largest funders of health research globally to 20 selected health areas (in million 2013 US $)

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

 

1

2

2a

2b

3

4

5

5a

6

7

8

9

10

Funding organization

NIH

EC – total

EC – FP7 health

EC – ERC

MRC

Inserm

US DoD – total

US DoD – CDMRP

Wellcome Trust

CIHR

NHMRC

HHMI

DFG

Country

USA

EU

EU

EU

GBR

FRA

USA

USA

GBR

CAN

AUS

USA

DEU

Year

2013

2013

2009/2010

2012

2009/2010

2012

2013

Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders

179

 Infectious diseases

4887

186

168

171

242

127

  Lower respiratory infections

113

14

  Diarrheal diseases

8

  HIV/AIDS

2898

46

12

 Maternal disorders

30

14

32

  Maternal haemorrhage

 Neonatal disorders

486

19

  Pre-term birth complications

198

15

 Nutritional deficiencies

2

  Protein deficiencies

Non-communicable diseases

 Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases

1964

82

50

13

28

40

97

  Ischemic heart disease

404

30

 Neoplasms

5274

80

84

12

139

  Trachea, bronchus, lung cancer

208

6

 Mental health

2174

59

29

55

59

  Unipolar depressive disorder

415

22

Injuries

367

1

0

35

 Transport injury

2

  1. Zero’s (“0”) indicates an amount of zero million in funding; dashes (“–”) indicate that no information on the amount of funding was available. Health areas were chosen to be a representative sample of health areas in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) classification [34]. Adding spending on the various health areas per funder will not total to the funder’s total expenditures, because the categories are a selection of health areas from the GBD report. Funding for selected health areas needs to be interpreted with caution because these data are mutually exclusive for some funders (Wellcome, MRC, CIHR, EC FP7 health, CDMRP), but not for others (NIH, NHMRC)
  2. See Table 4 for funders’ abbreviations
  3. Sources: NIH, http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx; EC FP7 Cooperation Progamme Health theme, http://www.healthcompetence.eu/; MRC and Wellcome Trust taken from the United Kingdom Health Research Analysis 2009/10 (United Kingdom Clinical Research Collaboration, 2012) (http://www.ukcrc.org/research-coordination/health-research-analysis/uk-healthresearch-analysis/3 and http://www.hrcsonline.net/pages/data); CDMRP, funding categorisation based on “physiology classification system” that we were provided by CDMRP through personal communication; CIHR, data received through personal communication; NHMRC, http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/research-funding-statistics-and-data/funding-datasets . Funding for selected health problems was only reported if funders categorized grants using an indexing system, amounts for various targeted programmes were not included, with the exception of the EC FP7 Cooperation programme, health theme, who requested we use programme-based figures for annual commitments from HealthCompetence.eu