The Cochrane Collaboration’s funding model reflects the international and dispersed nature of the organisation. While its core income (income paid directly to the Collaboration and used to sustain its information management system, research programmes, website etc) comes principally from the proceeds of The Cochrane Library and other Cochrane products, its entities are supported by national governments, international governmental and non-governmental organisations, universities, hospitals, private foundations, and personal donations. The Collaboration has taken the decision not to accept funding from conflicted organisations such as pharmaceutical companies.

This page lists the Collaboration’s entities’ direct funders for the financial year 2008-9, as declared by entities to the Monitoring and Registration Group; data for 2009-10 will be posted as it becomes available. Entities are also indirectly supported by a number of universities, hospitals and research organisations not listed here, who grant access to their resources.

The Collaboration wishes to thank for the following for their support:

Regional, national and international governments and organisations:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Department of Health and Human Services) (USA)
• AREAS (Research Association of Effective Health Assistance) (Italy)
• California State Minority AIDS Project
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research  (CIHR), including the Knowledge Translation Branch and the CIHR Institutes of Health Services and Policy Research; Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis; Gender and Health; Human Development, Child and Youth Health; Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes; and Infection and Immunity.
• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Department of Health and Human Services) (USA)
• Chief Scientist Office, Health Directorates (Scotland)
• Collaborating Departments of General Practice (Netherlands)
• Department for International Development (UK)
• Department of Health & Ageing (Australia)
• Department of Health (including funding directed through the NHS Research and Development Programme) (UK)
• Department of Health Incentive Scheme (Scotland)
• Department of Human Services, Victoria (Public Health Division) (Australia)
• Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (Canada)
• Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium (EHCRPC)
• Emilia Romagna Health Care Agency (Italy)
• European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
• European Union (EU)
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)
• Federal Ministry of Health (Germany)
• Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria)
• Government, Region Hovedstaden, Copenhagen + unspecified departments (Denmark)
• Government, unspecified departments (Norway)
• Health Research Board (Ireland)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (UK)
• HTA (Denmark)
• Indian Council of Medical Research
• Institute for Work & Health (Canada)
• Italian Drug Agency
• Medical Research Council (South Africa)
• Ministry of Education (CAPES) (Brazil)
• Ministry of Health (Brazil)
• Ministry of Health (Netherlands)
• Ministry of Health (New Zealand)
• Ministry of Health (Spain): Clinical Practice Guidelines Development
• Ministry of Health: all regions (Italy), including Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Unit, Rome E, Lazio Region, Regione Piemonte, Lombardia, and Umbria
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH) (USA)
• National Eye Institute (NIH) (USA)
• National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) (UK)
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH) (USA)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH) (USA)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) (agency/center unspecified) (USA)
• National Institute of Health (Italy)
• National Medical Research Council (Singapore)
• National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (Finland)
• National Service for Medical and Disablement Insurance (Belgium)
• Nordic Council of Ministers
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
• Norwegian Knowledge Center for the Health Services
• Office for Health Care Technology Assessment (Finland)
• Scottish Executive Health Department: Chief Scientist Office
• Thailand Research Fund
• Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) (Australia)
• Welsh Assembly Government
• World Health Organization

Independent not-for-profit organisations:

• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• Association for Epidemiology Research for Neurological Diseases (Italy)
• Associazione Volontari Aiuti per la Sclerosi Multipla
• Blue Shield of California Foundation
• Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Renal Medicine (Australia)
• Danielsen Foundation
• Dutch College of General Practitioners
• Foundation of Social and Preventive Medicine (Switzerland)
• IHCAI Foundation
• Instituto de Salud Carlos III
• ITI Foundation (Switzerland)
• Kidney Disease, Improving Global Outcomes: International Guidelines Group
• Kidney Health Australia
• KiKa (Netherlands)
• KNGF (Netherlands)
• Mapi Research Institute
• Mario Negri Institute
• National Cancer Institute (USA)
• Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
• The Joanna Briggs Institute
• The Finnish Medical Association
• The Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth Programme
• The Royal Society

Universities and hospitals:

• Cardiff University
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• College of Nursing, Costa Rica
• Copenhagen Hospital Corporation
• Galeazzi Hospital
• Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
• Lausanne University Hospital
• La Trobe University
• Leiden University Medical Center
• St Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital
• Universidade Federal de São Paulo
• University Hospital Cologne: “Köln Fortune"
• University of Birmingham
• University of Bremen
• University of East Anglia
• University of Freiburg
• University of Liverpool
• University of Split, School of Medicine
• University of Sydney

Commercial funding:

• Update Software
• West Pac Corporation

Personal donations:

• Bruce and Sue Shepherd
• F. Helmerhorst
• Lippmann
• Various anonymous donation