These data represent a snapshot of our research funding activity at the time that the data was extracted from our systems. These data were last updated 28 March 2017.
The datasets on this page are updated annually to include each year’s new awards and to refresh the data for continuing grants.
Changes to previously reported data
Our funding data have undergone cleaning to improve data quality. This included removing grants that were previously reported in these datasets that were co-funded by us, but administered through other organisations. The removed grants are reported by those other organisations.
In addition, reporting of our grant expenditure has changed from budget amounts to actual payments. This better reflects actual disbursement of funds and aligns our grant reporting with financial reporting. As such, some historical expenditure has changed from previous data.
NHMRC Research Funding Data - 2000 to 2016
The All Grants – 2000 to 2016 dataset contains details of all research grants during the period from 2000 to 2016. The dataset contains all publicly available details including research achievements and expected future outcomes from Final Reports when available.
The Summary Tables 2000 – 2016 dataset contains tables that summarise the data from the All Grants – 2000 to 2016 dataset. These summaries include funding by the main funding groups, grant types and sub types, states and territories, research sectors, broad research areas and administering institutions.
Both datasets contain a worksheet that provides explanatory information on the terminology used.
- All Grants 2000 - 2016 (XLS 14MB) updated March 2017
- Summary Tables 2000 – 2016 (XLS 100KB) updated March 2017
NHMRC Research Funding – Disease/disorders or health condition based data collections
Allocation of our funding to disease, health and research areas is based on the review of each individual grant against a range of investigator provided data classifications including Burden of Disease allocations, fields of research, keywords, grant titles and media summaries. The process may result in the allocation of grants to more than one disease, disorder or health issue. No attempt has been made to apportion the funding where more than one disease or disorder is indicated.
If the below tables do not provide the information you seek please contact nhmrc.statistics@nhmrc.gov.au.
NHMRC and other Australian Government priorities
The following table summarises our expenditure into the priority area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s health and the Australian Government’s National Health Priority Areas.
National Health Priority Areas |
2012$ million |
2013$ million |
2014$ million |
2015$ million |
2016$ million |
2017$ million |
|
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health |
46.6 |
41.5 |
49.1 |
55.8 |
51.8 |
49.6 |
|
Arthritis and Osteoporosis |
26.3 |
23.2 |
21.7 |
22.9 |
17.6 |
17.7 |
|
Asthma |
20.7 |
21.5 |
23.5 |
22.6 |
15.3 |
13.1 |
|
Cancer |
192.3 |
178.6 |
187.3 |
190.7 |
169.5 |
174.6 |
|
Cardiovascular Disease |
121.6 |
112.4 |
122.7 |
120.9 |
105.9 |
103.7 |
|
Dementia |
27.6 |
27.1 |
33.5 |
34.6 |
46.4 |
50.7 |
|
Diabetes |
74.8 |
65.1 |
69.6 |
69.4 |
64.1 |
56.8 |
|
Injury |
51.8 |
46.1 |
58.9 |
61.9 |
46.7 |
44.8 |
|
Mental Health |
70.4 |
73.3 |
83.8 |
86.1 |
71.6 |
67.3 |
|
Obesity |
40.5 |
41.7 |
40.5 |
38.3 |
27.2 |
26.8 |
Other disease, research and health areas:
The following table provides summary expenditure by a range of different disease, research and health areas. This list is under development and will grow over time.
Burden of Disease |
2012$ million |
2013$ million |
2014$ million |
2015$ million |
2016$ million |
2017$ million |
|
Adolescent Health |
20.1 |
21.0 |
19.9 |
19.1 |
13.7 |
13.6 |
|
Child Health |
76.8 |
81.4 |
87.5 |
98.7 |
84.3 |
81.50 |
|
Congenital Abnormalities |
27.0 |
24.5 |
27.4 |
31.2 |
23.1 |
23.6 |
|
Developmental Disorders |
13.0 |
10.8 |
12.2 |
14.9 |
12.9 |
11.9 |
|
Drug Addiction |
23.4 |
24.2 |
22.2 |
21.0 |
20.3 |
24.7 |
|
Eye Disease |
19.7 |
18.6 |
20.8 |
21.6 |
19.8 |
16.3 |
|
Human Development |
40.0 |
36.8 |
35.7 |
37.1 |
26.4 |
23.6 |
|
Infectious Disease |
131.8 |
126.3 |
134.8 |
141.6 |
123.7 |
120.3 |
|
Maternal Health |
30.6 |
33.6 |
34.7 |
37.0 |
30.9 |
28.7 |
|
Mens Health |
25.9 |
19.4 |
17.1 |
18.2 |
15.1 |
15.6 |
|
Nervous System Disorders and Neuroscience |
154.5 |
148.2 |
171.8 |
187.6 |
180.5 |
177.0 |
|
Nutrition |
32.8 |
31.2 |
29.6 |
31.4 |
26.8 |
26.3 |
|
Primary Health Care |
19.5 |
19.4 |
24.7 |
31.5 |
25.0 |
24.5 |
|
Respiratory Disease |
41.9 |
42.4 |
47.4 |
50.6 |
38.4 |
33.4 |
NHMRC Analysis of Australian Health and Medical Research Publications
We regularly publish reports on the scientific publication output and the citation impact of NHMRC-funded research and of Australian health and medical research more broadly.
National Register of Public Health Research
National Register of Public Health Research provides greater transparency in the conduct and reporting of results of government, non-government and commercially supported public health research. The pilot phase contains details of NHMRC-funded research projects only.
Governance Reporting
In accordance with our reporting obligations, further data on our grants is available at the below link.