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. 2022 Mar 22;5:209. Originally published 2020 Sep 8. [Version 5] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16259.5

Table 4. Number of Research Projects Included Under Each Cross-Cutting Theme and WHO Priority Area (known funding amounts indicated in brackets).

WHO Priority Area
Cross-Cutting Area Number of
Projects		 Virus:
natural
history...		 Animal and
environmental
research...		 Epidemiological
studies		 Clinical
characterization
and
management		 Infection
prevention
and
control...		 Candidate
therapeutics
R&D		 Candidate
vaccines
R&D		 Ethics
considerations
for research		 Social
sciences
in the
outbreak
response		 N/A
Innovation ($160.7m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0009.jpg 91 0 33 241 355 28 16 3 279 202
Repurposed ($386.5m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0010.jpg 172 6 77 202 59 130 36 6 276 52
Modelling ($163.5m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0011.jpg 119 8 355 71 96 47 26 7 128 13
Indirect Health Impacts ($90.1m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0012.jpg 5 0 29 116 20 1 0 1 436 19
Cohorts ($313.9m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0013.jpg 79 0 84 131 16 17 9 2 110 11
Long COVID ($208.3m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0014.jpg 19 1 25 114 2 7 2 0 21 0
Gender ($26.0m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0015.jpg 1 0 3 2 4 0 1 3 131 1
Capacity Strengthening ($196.8m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0016.jpg 32 1 19 20 11 13 5 5 56 7
Pandemic Preparedness ($103.2m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0017.jpg 14 2 20 15 15 6 5 4 55 5
Implementation ($347.5m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0018.jpg 13 0 5 8 8 8 2 1 19 37
New Variant ($11.3m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-19586-g0019.jpg 13 1 6 2 0 0 6 0 0 0

Notes:

i. Research projects may be assigned with multiple cross-cutting themes and WHO priority areas

ii. Highlighted cells indicate the WHO Priority Area with the greatest number of projects for each cross-cutting theme (excluding projects that were not assigned a priority area, marked N/A).

iii. Funding figures available for 59.2% of projects included in the latest version of the tracker database as not all funders provided financial information.

iv. Definitions of cross-cutting themes-

     ◦    Capacity strengthening: Projects which involve a capacity strengthening component. Capacity strengthening at all levels- individual, institutional and national is included.

     ◦    Cohorts: Projects carried out in newly established cohorts or pivoted existing cohorts for COVID-19 research.

     ◦    Gender: Projects which incorporate a gendered lens in description of methods/ objectives and project outputs.

     ◦    Implementation: Grants for facilitating research administration.

     ◦    Indirect Health Impacts: Projects focusing on indirect health impacts of COVID-19, for example related to disruptions in healthcare services, neonatal, maternal and child health, non-communicable diseases, chronic disease conditions and mental health.

     ◦    Innovation: Projects involving novel inventions and interventions.

     ◦    Long COVID: Projects involving the long-term morbidity and enduring symptoms of COVID-19 beyond the initial infection.

     ◦    Modelling: Projects involving any form of modelling in the methodology.

     ◦    New Variants : Projects involving new variants of the coronavirus that cause COVID-19.

     ◦    Pandemic Preparedness: Projects with preparedness for future pandemics as an objective.

     ◦    Repurposed projects: Pre-COVID research grants (usually for MERS, SARS and other pathogens) where additional funding has been awarded for tailoring to COVID-19 research.