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. 2023 Jul 26;5:209. Originally published 2020 Sep 8. [Version 10] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16259.10

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
Theme 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
Indirect Health Impacts ($356.1m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0009.jpg 27 0 77 243 119 12 2 37 1885 78
Innovation ($286.4m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0010.jpg 120 0 46 268 478 37 28 6 540 267
Modelling ($235.1m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0011.jpg 182 18 524 109 121 72 41 11 197 24
Repurposed ($429.0m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0012.jpg 180 6 79 210 69 173 38 6 298 52
Cohorts ($398.0m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0013.jpg 106 1 95 162 22 21 22 4 136 17
Capacity Strengthening ($280.5m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0014.jpg 61 3 40 36 34 23 13 14 178 29
Long COVID ($292.1m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0015.jpg 36 1 35 217 2 18 7 0 30 3
Gender ($42.7m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0016.jpg 6 0 10 9 9 3 3 4 235 6
Pandemic Preparedness ($181.7m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0017.jpg 23 5 50 22 31 21 6 6 113 16
Implementation ($386.1m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0018.jpg 19 0 8 13 24 10 3 1 57 62
New Variants ($88.1m) graphic file with name wellcomeopenres-5-21597-g0019.jpg 109 3 35 21 3 19 39 0 9 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 61.2% 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.