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
NHMRC Project Grants success rate by Broad Research Area Updated
This dataset contains details of the success rate for Project Grants against the four research pillars – Basic Science, Clinical Medicine and Science, Health Services Research and Public Health.
Summary of annual funding commitments information 2009 - 2012 Updated
Based on the announcements for new research funding commitments since the 2008 Application Round (funding years 2009 to 2012) with links to the NHMRC website where details of the funding announcements and awards are located.
NHMRC core funding data
NHMRC core funding data Updated
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 Previous Decade, 2002 - 2011 NHMRC Research Funding
- The Next 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 2011 New
Contains key statistics related to NHMRC research funding and research activity over the last ten years.
Major Health Issues Likely to Arise
As required by the National Health and Medical Research Act (1992) and outlined in the NHMRC 2010-2012 Strategic Plan, the following major health issues are the subject of special consideration:
- Building a self-improving health system
- Indigenous health and well-being
- Ageing and health
- Chronic disease
- Mental health
- Genomic medicine and frontier technologies
- Planning for emerging infectious disease threats
- Examining alternative therapy claims
- Global health
- Health consequences of climate change.
A report on National Health and Medical Research Council’s considerations and progress of the MHILAs has been published and is available here.
A progress report on the extent that NHMRC’s research funding addresses each of the MHILAs, updated to include the period 2000 to 2011, is provided here.
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
Updated
Lay summaries
This dataset contains the available lay summaries for all research support grants (projects, program and strategic grants) and people support grants (career fellowships, early career training fellowships and postgraduate scholarships) since the 2000 Application Round. As at 20 December 2011, there are more than 10,000 lay summaries available. These data are presented in three worksheet s– New Grants from 2012, Continuing Grants, and Completed Grants.
Summary list of NHMRC research funding data
A quick reference list providing a one line summary of the funding for 2000-2011 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 134 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 1104 separate worksheets (up from 794 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 50 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 (to be updated to include data up to 2011). -
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 (to be updated to include more than 4000 reports held as at December 2011).
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
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
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. Further information and assistance is available from the NHMRC Statistics Unit via email at NHMRC.Statistics@nhmrc.gov.au.