A listing of public and philanthropic funders of health research

Change log

In this section, we provide updates about changes that were made to this website and the database of health research funders.

11-10-2014

European Commission (EC) FP7 expenditures added

Health research expenditures added from various funding structures within the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 (FP7). Data derived from the HealthCompetence website.

09-10-2014

Organizations from UKCRC analysis added

Funding organizations from the UKCRC analysis added to the database.

08-10-2014

Organizations from study on top-10 funders of health research added

Funding organizations from study “The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world: what they fund and how they distribute their funds” added to the database. Publication is available here:

The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world: what they fund and how they distribute their funds. Roderik F. Viergever and Thom C. C. Hendriks. Health Research Policy and Systems, 2016,14:12. DOI: 10.1186/s12961-015-0074. https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-015-0074-z