2021 G-FINDER Neglected Disease Report: tracking funding for global health R&D
Biomedical innovation — the development of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other health technologies, and the fundamental basic research that makes this development possible — has been responsible for incredible gains in human health. But millions of people in the world still suffer needlessly because there is no commercial incentive to develop the products they need.
The G-FINDER project tracks annual investment in R&D for new products and technologies that are designed to address the persistent global health challenges that disproportionately affect the world's most disadvantaged people.
Policy Cures Research's goal is to provide funders, policy makers, researchers, advocates, journalists and others with an accurate understanding of the R&D funding landscape for neglected diseases and other global health priorities. The G-FINDER data portal provides open access to all of the underlying data captured by the G-FINDER survey every year since 2007.
The G-FINDER project tracks annual investment into R&D for new products and technologies to address priority global health challenges. This includes funding for basic research and the development of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other tools for global health priorities that disproportionately affect people in low- and middle-income countries, such as neglected diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and sexual and reproductive health issues.
The basis of this project is an annual survey of the world’s funders and developers of global health R&D. The G-FINDER survey and report series was founded and created by Policy Cures, and has been funded since its inception by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The data collected in this survey has been used to create a unique repository of investment data, providing an unmatched resource for policy-makers, donors, researchers and industry. The database outlines the long-term landscape of funding for R&D for global health priority areas, including where funding gaps exist and how single investments fit into the global picture.
Their unique database of R&D investment data for global health issues can be freely accessed through the G-FINDER data portal. This includes data from both Policy Cures (2007-2015) and Policy Cures Research (2015 onwards).
Analysis and reports based on this data can be found here.