Table 5.
Percentage of respondents who would definitely refuse or refuse to accept funds based on the following scenario overall and by global region and attitude, 2017–2018
| Scenario | Overall refuse (%) | Refuse (%) by region | Refuse (%) by attitude: In favour of accepting funds from for-profit organizations? | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | Europe | EMR/SEA/AFR | Yes | No | ||
| 6. A tobacco company offers you funding for a study investigating the impact of tobacco products and e-cigarettes | 77.4 | 77.5 | 81.8 | 73.0 | 68.6* | 87.8 |
| 9. A billionaire, whose wealth comes primarily from arms sales, wants to donate money to construct a building in your university with his name on it | 71.2 | 65.1 | 87.9 | 70.3 | 59.5 Ω | 84.7 |
| 14. A warehouse department store, whose employees suffer from exploitation and violence at the workplace, wants to donate $10’000 for facilities and equipment to your faculty | 68.1 | 63.6 | 79.4 | 68.4 | 56.8 Ω | 81.9 |
| 5. A corporation in the sports clothing industry with factories in third world countries with a questionable environmental record wants to sponsor a ‘greening the environment’ initiative at your university | 61.9 | 59.3 | 75.0 | 56.8 | 48.8 Ω | 76.7 |
| 7. A multinational corporation that manufactures soft drinks, juices, and packaged junk food is seeking to recruit Public Health researchers from your faculty in order to conduct a study on fitness and other health-related topics for children | 56.3 | 55.7 | 57.6 | 56.8 | 35.3 Ω | 80.8 |
| 19. A multinational phone company wants to donate $500’000 to support a project assessing risks related to child labour that your faculty is conducting. This company has recently been in the news for exploiting their workers | 53.8 | 46.0 | 64.7 | 62.2 | 45.9 Ω | 63.0 |
| 2. A soft drink beverage company wants to fund an intervention in your faculty aimed at promoting healthy eating | 52.8 | 46.7 | 67.6 | 53.8 | 34.1 Ω | 74.7 |
| 11. A pharmaceutical firm recently fought against its drugs being manufactured in India as generics, arguing patent and intellectual property rights. It wants to support research in health policy at your university | 49.1 | 44.4 | 61.8 | 48.6 | 36.8 Ω | 63.5 |
| 15. A fast-food corporation wants to donate $5’000 for a one-day students’ health education activity organized by your Public Health School | 45.6 | 37.9 | 58.8 | 51.3 | 32.6 Ω | 60.8 |
| 12. An alcohol industry donates money to your university’s Office of Grants. The office will be responsible for the distribution and allocation of the money for various projects without directly acknowledging the alcohol industry’s involvement | 44.7 | 33.0* | 60.6 | 57.9 | 33.7 Ω | 57.5 |
| 13. An international tobacco company, in partnership with the International Labour Organization, wants to fund an advocacy campaign in order to stop the exploitation of child labourers in tobacco farming and approaches you to plan and evaluate such a campaign | 44.7 | 36.4 | 58.8 | 51.4 | 31.0 Ω | 61.1 |
| 3. A pharmaceutical company that recently developed nutritional supplements wants to fund an intervention at your faculty aimed at promoting exercise | 37.7 | 38.9 | 29.4 | 42.1 | 23 Ω | 54.7 |
| 17. A company that manufactures fertilizers and pesticides wants to sponsor a research study your faculty is conducting on farmers’ protective clothing | 36.3 | 35.6 | 39.4 | 35.1 | 22.4 Ω | 52.8 |
| 20. A gambling company wants to donate $1.2 million to your university’s art and music department. The donation will go towards an initiative the arts/music department is working on to build a visual and performing arts centre for the youth in an impoverished neighbourhood of the university | 34.2 | 21.6* | 55.9 | 44.4 | 24.4 Ω | 45.8 |
| 4. A billionaire, whose wealth comes primarily from telecommunications but who also has investments in tobacco companies, wants to set up a family health centre at your university to support innovative programmes in maternal and child health | 32.1 | 20.0* | 50.0 | 44.7 | 17 Ω | 50.0 |
| 1. A fast food corporation wants to provide an anonymous full scholarship to financially disadvantaged, yet academically promising, students for a degree in public health at your university | 28.6 | 18.2* | 44.1 | 38.5 | 14.0 Ω | 45.3 |
| 10. A pharmaceutical company that manufactures chemotherapy drugs wishes to sponsor an intervention campaign to screen for breast cancer at your university’s infirmary | 25.5 | 28.1 | 21.9 | 21.1 | 16.5 Ω | 36.1 |
| 18. A recognized foundation recently divested from its tobacco stocks wants to fund a smoking cessation programme that is being implemented at your university | 18.5 | 9.2* | 29.4 | 30.6 | 11.5 Ω | 27.1 |
| 8. A financial services corporation establishes a foundation with its namesake but with an independent Board of Trustees. This foundation wants to sponsor fellowships in health care financing at your university | 14.4 | 8.9 | 25.0 | 18.4 | 9.1 Ω | 20.8 |
| 16. An international businessman who manages global investments in oil and gas wants to donate $20 million to the renovation and expansion of your university medical centre | 14.2 | 7.0 Ω | 27.3 | 19.4 | 8.2 Ω | 21.4 |
Bolded percentages indicate significant differences between regions
USA United States of America, EMR Eastern Mediterranean Region, SEA Southeast Asia Region, AFR African Region, EUR European Region
*p ≤ 0.01/Ω p ≤ 0.05