The NHMRC Statistics Unit welcomes you to NHMRC's research funding data and statistics information portal. Over time this site will be developed to provide comprehensive information on NHMRC research funding data across the spectrum of research activity.
Statistics and data collections
New NHMRC Project Grants success rate by Broad Research Area
Updated Summary of annual funding commitments information 2009 - 2011
Based on the announcements for new research funding commitments in the last three years with reference to the NHMRC website where details of the funding announcements and awards are located.
Updated NHMRC core funding data
The NHMRC research funding data for period 1990 to 2011 covering all new and continuing grants funded and active in that 22 year period. Provides the core information on who was funded, what was funded, for how long and how much. Whilst the data is filtered to enable user interrogation, it also provides a range of preset tabulated data to assist. The data is provided in four datasets:
- The Current Decade, 2002 - 2011 NHMRC Research Funding
- The Future Decade, 2010 - 2019 NHMRC Research Funding (includes 2010 and 2011 data)
- 2000 - 2009 NHMRC Research Funding
- 1990 - 1999 NHMRC Research Funding
NHMRC Research Funding Facts Book 2010
Contains key statistics related to NHMRC research funding and research activity over the last ten years.
National Register of Public Health Research
The National Register of Public Health Research provides for greater transparency in the conduct and reporting of results of government, non-government and commercially supported public health research.The pilot phase of the National Register of Public Health Research contains details of NHMRC-funded research projects only. In future, researchers will be welcome to add information on their research projects that are not part of this initial pilot.
Summary of Research achievements
A series of summary reports that includes both the research intention through the investigator provided lay summary from the grant application and the research outcomes summary from the investigator provided End of Grant Report (contains details from more than 3300 reports as at August 2010). The summaries cover:
- Summary of All available End of Grants Reports as at 1 Aug 2010 (updated)
- Summary of Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia research reports
- Summary of Arthritis research reports
- Summary of Asthma research reports
- Summary of Cancer research reports
- Summary of Cardiovascular Disease research reports
- Summary of Diabetes research reports
- Summary of Injury research reports
- Summary of Mental Health research reports
- Summary of Obesity research reports
- Summary of Indigenous health research reports
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Lay summaries
This is a dataset containing the available lay summaries for all research support grants (projects, program and strategic grants) and people support grants (career awards, career development awards, training fellowships and scholarships) since the 2000 Application Round. As at 1 August 2010, there are more than 7,600 lay summaries available. -
Summary list of NHMRC research funding data
All current disease and health issues datasets and worksheets. A quick reference list providing a one line summary of the funding for 2000-2010 for the wide range of burden of disease and health issues datasets (including National Health Priority Areas and NHMRC priorities) that are available on the NHMRC Statistics Portal. The currency of the data is also provided. -
National Health Priority Areas (NHPAs)
Research funding data for the Australian Government’s nominated national health priorities (arthritis, asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, injury, mental health and obesity). -
NHMRC research priorities
The current NHMRC Research priority is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health -
NHMRC research funding datasets based on burden of disease and health issues
Contains 125 datasets, each with a summary page, a calendar year and a financial year page for all grants in that dataset. Within these datasets there are 714 separate worksheets (up from 594 last year) for the different sub-types within each disease or health issue. For example, the Cancer dataset, in addition to the summary page, calendar year and financial year all grants data, has in excess of 30 sub-type worksheets (from bone cancer to testicular cancer).
Under review
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NHMRC research funding trend data
A range of research funding data and information drawn from the NHMRC’s electronic databases covering information on funded research, generally over the period 2000-2006 (being updated to include data up to 2010) -
Analysis of NHMRC End of Grant reports
Currently contains quantitative data from more than 1200 available final reports for grants that ended in 2004 to 2005 held in the electronic database (being updated to include more than 3300 reports held as at Aug 2010)
Historical
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A History of NHMRC research activity through its research funding and researchers. This will include a series of short ‘stories’ about NHMRC research funding over different periods of time including from the very beginning of the NHMRC in 1937. These ‘stories’ will be developed as time and resources permits and currently includes:
- NHMRC research funding retrospective 1990-1999 and 2000-2007
- The War Years – 1939 to 1945
Feedback wanted
As a part of the NHMRC's ongoing commitment to consistently provide the best available information on NHMRC funding to all stakeholders and the Australian public, we are seeking feedback regarding the usability and usefulness of the data contained in the statistics portal. Your feedback will be used to improve the quality and presentation of the information provided.
Purpose
This site enables stakeholders and users of NHMRC data to have direct access to the most consistent and best available information on NHMRC funded research. The datasets and worksheets have been produced by the NHMRC Statistics Unit and will be updated annually through a rolling review process to include the current year's research funding details.
The datasets and worksheets are based on the review of each individual grant against a range of investigator provided data classification and search options including Burden of Disease allocations, Fields of Research, keywords, grant titles and, where available, investigator provided lay descriptions. 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 etc is indicated.
Utility
Core datasets
The core NHMRC Research Funding Datasets cover the 22 years from 1990 to 2011 and are fully searchable datasets. The first dataset is the current decade (2002-2011). Subsequent datasets are presented as ten year snapshots; 1990-1999, 2000-2009 and 2010-2019 (with 2010 and 2011 as the first two years of the latter dataset). Each contains a range of information presented in summary tables, including funding by main funding groups, grant types, grant sub-types, broad research areas, fields of research, administering institutions, state and territory and funding by sector.
Burden of disease and health issues
Each burden of disease and health issues dataset contains a Summary page which provides details of the total expenditure by calendar and financial year for the full period of the funding for the all the worksheets contained in the dataset as well as details on the data collection/presentation methodology. Each worksheet within a dataset also contains a Summary of Expenditure for each year of the dataset, including the number of active grants each year and details of the remaining out years funding.
As NHMRC funding is awarded on a calendar year basis, the funding information provided in the datasets and worksheets is the annual expenditure for each calendar year. However, each dataset will also include a worksheet that shows financial year funding at the all grants worksheet level. For example, the cancer dataset will have both a calendar year and a financial year worksheet for all cancer grants whereas the Breast Cancer sub-types worksheet will be provided in calendar year form only.
Summary notes
Each dataset and worksheet contains a number of summary notes. These will indicate that the data:
- is based on keyword and title searches relative to the disease or disorder;
- may form part of a larger dataset and if so, there may be a large amount of funding that falls within the disease or disorder under review that cannot be ascribed to a particular type of the disease through the existing methodology but which may have a benefit to sufferers of that disease or disorder; and
- will change over time.
Disclaimer
The information provided in these data is provided free of charge by the NHMRC for the benefit of stakeholders and the public. While due care has been taken in its preparation, the NHMRC cannot guarantee and assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency, completeness or interpretation of the information.
Feedback
Feedback on the utility of and accuracy of the datasets and worksheets is welcomed. Further information and assistance is available from the NHMRC Statistics Unit via email at NHMRC.Statistics@nhmrc.gov.au.