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Public and philanthropic health research funding organizations
Country
Type of funding organization
Year for which funding data were collected
Total health research expenditures (in million 2013 US $)
Specificity of the funding dataa
Research area that the funding data refer toa
Reporting format of the funding dataa
1
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
USA
Public
2013
26,081.3
I
A
1
2
European Commission (EC)b
EU
Public
2013
3717.7
II
A
1
2a FP7 - Cooperation programme - Health Theme/Health Directorate c
EU
Public
2013
1181.7
II
A
1
2b European Research Council (ERC)
EU
Public
2013
783.4
II
A
1
3
UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
GBR
Public
2013
1321.5
I
A
1
4
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm)
FRA
Public
2013
1041.2
I
A
1
5
United States Department of Defense (US DoD)b
USA
Public
2013
1017.7
I
A
2
5a Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP)
USA
Public
2012
409.0
I
A
1
6
Wellcome Trustd
GBR
Philanthropic
2013
909.1
I
A
1
7
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
CAN
Public
2012
883.6
I
A
1
8
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
AUS
Public
2013
777.6
I
A
1
9
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
USA
Philanthropic
2013
752.0
I
A
1
10
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation (DFG)
DEU
Public
2012
630.6
I
A
1
11
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
CHN
Public
2012
621.3
II
A
1
12
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
FRA
Public
2013
531.0
III
B
2
13
UK Department of Health / National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
GBR
Public
2012
491.2
I
A
1
14
Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
JPN
Public
2011
472.5
I
A
1
15
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung / Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF)
DEU
Public
2013
472.1
I
A
1
16
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)e
USA
Philanthropic
2011
462.6
I
A
1
17
Ministero della Salute / Ministry of Health of Italy
ITA
Public
2007
438.6
I
A
2
18
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)e
ESP
Public
2011
388.2
I
A
1
19
Ministry of Health of China
CHN
Public
2011
371.7
I
A
1
20
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)e
JPN
Public
2012
338.5
I
C
2
21
Institut Pasteur
FRA
Philanthropic
2013
220.9
I
A
1
22
Singapore National Medical Research Council (NMRC)
SGP
Public
2012
220.7
–
A
1
23
Korean National Research Foundation (NRF)
KOR
Public
2011
191.5
I
A
1
24
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)e
ARG
Public
2012
184.4
II
B
1
25
Vetenskapsrådet-Medicine / Swedish Research Council
SWE
Public
2012
177.9
–
A
1
26
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
CHE
Public
2012
172.9
I
A
1
27
ZonMw / Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
NLD
Public
2012
172.7
I
A
1
28
Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)e
BRA
Public
2012
154.2
I
A
1
29
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
IND
Public
2011
140.3
I
A
3
30
Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO)
BEL
Public
2010
136.9
I
A
1
31
Korea National Institute of Health (KNIH)
KOR
Public
2013
120.0
III
A
2
32
Forskingsrådet / Research Council of Norway
NOR
Public
2012
113.5
III
A
2
33
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
BRA
Public
2013
110.8
I
A
2
34
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
AUT
Public
2012
99.5
I
C
1
35
South African Medical Research Council (SA MRC)
ZAF
Public
2012
63.2
I
A
3
36
Health Research Council of New Zealand
NZL
Public
2012
61.6
III
A
1
37
Danish Council for Independent Research / Medical Sciences
DNK
Public
2012
58.5
II
A
1
38
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
RUS
Public
2013
53.6
III
B
2
39
Danish Council for Strategic Research (two programmes: Individuals, Disease and Society & Health, Food and Welfare)
DNK
Public
2012
40.3
II
C
1
40
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
MEX
Public
2010
21.9
II
A
2
41
South African Department of Science and Technology (DST)
ZAF
Public
2012
13.5
I
B
1
42
Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Technologica (Agenica - ANPCyT)
ARG
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
43
Biomedical Research Council of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (BMRC of A*STAR)
SGP
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
44
Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST)
CHN
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
45
Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
IND
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
46
Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST)
IND
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
47
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
SAU
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
48
Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
BEL
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
49
Lipi Indonesian Research Council
IDN
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
50
Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
RUS
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
51
National Research Foundation South Africa (NRF SA)
ZAF
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
52
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
BRA
Philanthropic
–
No data
–
–
–
53
Rockefeller foundation
USA
Philanthropic
–
No data
–
–
–
54
Tubitak / Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
TUR
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
55
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)
TUR
Public
–
No data
–
–
–
Total for the 10 largest funders of health research
37,132.2
Total for funders 11 to 41
7116.2
Total for all 41 funding organizations for which data were available
44,248.3
Dashes (“–”) indicate that no information was available. Funders of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and multilaterals funders are excluded from this table and are reported separately. Data presented in the table are from the most recent year available at the time of data collection. Reported expenditures on health research can differ from what funders themselves report, because we excluded operational costs for managing the funding organization where possible, and because we excluded funding for research education
aFunders report differently on their expenditures. Preferably, we collected information on the actual expenditures of a funder in the area of health research, excluding funders’ operational costs. However, this information was not always available. Therefore, we describe here the type of data that we collected, in terms of how funding organizations report annual health research expenditures (i.e. I, actual expenditures; II, commitments; or III, budgets), in terms of the research areas that their reported numbers pertain to (i.e. A, only health research; B, health and biological research; or C, life sciences research), and in terms of what the expenditures cover (i.e. 1, total expenditures on health research excluding operational costs; 2, total expenditures on health research including also operational costs; or 3, total overall turnover for the funder over a single fiscal year)
bTwo funders consisted of several sub-programmes with very different funding distribution mechanisms and patterns. (1) For the European Commission: Under the EC the FP7 was the largest research program in FY 2007–2013. The ERC and Cooperation programme - Health theme (the Health Directorate is the executive agency for the latter) are both programmes run under FP7. Under the FP7 there are several funding programmes: Ideas – ERC, Cooperation programme, People – Marie Curie, Capacity Program, CIP and Euratom. Due to this large number of funding programmes, and the differences between the funding programmes, we reviewed the two largest funding programmes: the Cooperation – Health theme and the Ideas – ERC programme. (2) For the US DoD: The defence health program holds 14 research programmes. We chose to review the largest programme, which was identified as the CDMRP
cThe ERC was able to provide figures for its funding distribution mechanisms in the area of Life Sciences, not of health research. However, the website www.healthcompetence.eu provided figures of health research funding by the ERC. For consistency, figures for the Health theme of the FP7 Cooperation programme were extracted from the same website. There are slight deviations between these figures and the health research spending reported by FP7 Cooperation programme itself
dThe annual expenditures for the Wellcome Trust are a slight overestimation for health research spending. Under Medical Humanities and engagement, various non-research grants are provided as well as other activities (e.g. running the Wellcome library), but these were not reported on separately, and are therefore included under ‘Research’
eInformation was collected from official websites and annual reports. For these five organizations, information was not publicly available, and was acquired through personal communication with a representative of the organization
