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National Institutes of Health funding
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of research and treatment of ME/CFS has been historically low.
According to NIH, the budget in the United States for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) for previous years is as follows:[1]
- Fiscal Year 2020 - $15 million
- Fiscal Year 2019 - $15 million
- Fiscal Year 2018 - $14 million
- Fiscal Year 2017 - $15 million
- Fiscal Year 2016 - $8 million
- Fiscal Year 2015 - $6 million
- Fiscal Year 2014 - $5 million
- Fiscal Year 2013 - $5 million
- Fiscal Year 2012 - $5 million
- Fiscal Year 2011 - $6 million
- Fiscal Year 2010 - $6 million
- Fiscal Year 2009 - $5 million
- Fiscal Year 2008 - $4 million
- Fiscal Year 2007 - $4 million[2]
- Fiscal Year 2006 - $5 million[2]
In November 2016, NIH Director Francis Collins announced that NIH spending for research for CFS disease is intended to double to roughly $15 million in 2017, compared to the estimated $7.6 million allotted for research in 2016.[3]
NIH Research Funding
- Nov 27, 2020, Gender Disparity in the Funding of Diseases by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
- 2020, Research update: The relation between ME/CFS disease burden and research funding in the USA
- 2016, Estimating the disease burden of ME/CFS in the United States and its relation to research funding
- Nov 2015, [https://twitter.com/brianvastag/status/667879507571806208%7CScience magazine Chart on ME/CFS spending vs other diseases
- ME Research UK - ME/CFS funding report
- Chart showing relative funding posted by Tom Kindlon
- Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories by the NIH - $5-7 million annually
- Rivka Solomon estimates that, based on disease prevalence and burden, NIH funding should be around $250 million
- YouTube: Money and ME, Patient Analysis Video - An illustration of the amount of money invested in research into ME/CFS By MEAnalysis
Learn more
- ME/CFS Funding - National Institutes of Health
See also
- Research bias in ME/CFS
- Stigma and discrimination
- National Institutes of Health
- Francis Collins
- Vicky Whittemore
- United States
- Ethical issues
- Biomedical research
References
- ↑ https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT). "Biennial Report of the Director, NIH, FY 2006 & 2007". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
- ↑ Wadman, Meredith (November 12, 2016). "NIH to double funding for chronic fatigue syndrome, but patient distrust remains". Science magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
