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Table 1 Funding for research on neglected diseases and health in low- and lower-middle-income countries

From: Global health equity in United Kingdom university research: a landscape of current policies and practices

University

Funding attributable to research on neglected diseases, £ (percentage of THRF in brackets)

Funding attributable to research on health in LLMICs, £ (percentage of THRF in brackets)

Total health research funding in 2011–2014, £ (THRF)

Cardiff University

0 (0.0)

126,286 (0.3)

48,883,350

Imperial College

17,826,708 (11.0)a

5,542,297 (3.40)

162,093,401a

King’s College London

2,676,930 (2.4)

6,205 (0.0)

110,854,979

LSHTM

24,383,502 (32.5)a

22,883,802 (30.5)a

74,970,446

Newcastle University

0 (0.0)

517,735 (0.9)

59,051,690

Queen Mary

625,257 (2.7)

584,374 (2.5)

23,404,007

University College London

6,321,359 (2.6)a

7,895,999 (3.2)a

245,303,666a

U. of Aberdeen

0 (0.0)

507,154 (2.4)

20,816,124

U. of Birmingham

2,808,451 (8.0)

1,464,820 (4.2)

35,067,638

U. of Bristol

589,409 (1.3)

0 (0.0)

44,036,199

U. of Cambridge

688,439 (0.3)

3,085,230 (1.2)

260,465,308a

U. of Dundee

5,980,568 (7.2)

301,480 (0.4)

82,629,476

U. of Edinburgh

4,744,693 (3.8)

3,041,556 (2.4)

125,460,071

U. of Glasgow

1,632,483 (3.9)

0 (0.0)

41,556,952

U. of Leedsb

0 (0.0)

7,500,000 (23.3)a

32,221,557

U. of Leicester

4,000 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

16,756,360

U. of Liverpool

3,540,839 (10.8)

756,015 (2.3)

32,858,179

U. of Manchester

440,484 (0.6)

0 (0.0)

69,608,229

U. of Nottingham

673,835 (3.1)

366,123 (1.7)

21,946,156

U. of Oxford

51,697,856 (17.6)a

14,028,309 (4.8)a

293,780,277a

U. of Reading

1,130,489 (19.6)

0 (0.0)

5,778,531

U. of Sheffield

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

28,309,890

U. of Southampton

0 (0.0)

548,557 (6.8)

8,056,867

U. of Sussex

1,558,982 (4.0)

111,824 (0.3)

39,160,020

U. of Warwick

299,060 (1.7)

1,477,190 (8.3)

17,810,933

Total

127,623,343 (6.71)

70,744,957 (3.72)

1,900,880,305

Median proportion across institutions

2.6 (IQR 7.2)

1.7 (IQR 3.4)

N/A

Share of total within-column funding granted to top four institutions

79%

74%

51%

Correlation with THRF

0.390 (P = 0.066)

0.074 (P = 0.736)

N/A

  1. LLMICs low- and lower-middle-income countries, LSHTM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, IQR inter-quartile range, THRF total health research funding
  2. aValues for top four institutions by absolute funding within each column
  3. bAll hLLMIC-attributed funding at the University of Leeds (£7.5 million) represents a single grant awarded by DfID