WHO donors in 2015 (US, UK, Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, National Philanthropic Trust): Setting the agenda for global public health?

In the run up to the 69th World Health Assembly, to be convened in Geneva from 23 May 2016 to 28 May 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) has prepared a document (A69/INF./3, 13 May 2016) entitled Voluntary contributions by fund and by contributor, 2015. Total voluntary contributions to WHO in 2015 amounted to $1,836,970,206 which represented a dip from the 2014 figure of $2,001,713,247.

Here is a non-exhaustive list detailing the sources of voluntary contributions to WHO and the size of their respective contributions in 2015.

United States of America: $305,744,839
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: $195,678,335
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $185,272,525
GAVI Alliance: $126,421,673
National Philanthropic Trust: $86,252,168
Nigeria: $67,610,799
Rotary International: $56,302,924
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): $47,221,524
Canada: $47,158,403
European Commission: $45,637,006
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF): $42,219,954
Norway: $41,961,543
Australia: $36,692,334
Sweden: $35,597,496
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): $30,723,860
Japan: $30,633,764
Pakistan: $28,359,311
Kuwait: $20,500,000
United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP): $19,982,127
African Development Bank Group: $19,105,011
Liberia: $18,981,542
Netherlands: $18,132,475
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS): $17,936,172
Switzerland: $17,347,284
UNITAID: $14,923,517
Saudi Arabia: $14,263,748
United Arab Emirates: $13,160,000
Republic of Korea: $11,695,118
Luxembourg: $10,152,805
Guinea-Bissau: $12,000,000
Belgium: $11,956,521
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): $9.979,445
France: $9,321,471
Finland: $9,233,910
Bloomberg Family Foundation: $8,424,000
Russian Federation: $8,451,025
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK): $7,769,202
Germany: $7,451,499
Wellcome Trust: $7,408,605
Novartis: $6,992,742
Carter Center :$6,500,000
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): $6,337,126
Sanofi Pasteur: $6,158,152
India: $5,774,267
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA): $5,509,649
International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD): $5,370,052
Ikea Foundation: $5,524,862
Singapore: $5,543,410
Denmark: $5,120,328
Italy: $4,732,787
World Bank: $3,550,000
Government Of Punjab, Pakistan: $4,418,262
Task Force for Global Health (TFGH): $4,247,745
Asia Europe Foundation: $3,045,000
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): 2 894 834
China: $2,857,811
CDC Foundation :$2,554,271
Merck Sharp and Dohme-Chibret: $2,457,453
Spain: $1,995,615
Greece: $1,942,171
Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain: $1,794,157
Equatorial Guinea: $1,750,767
Flemish Government, Belgium: $1,574,628
Ireland: $1,531,492
Brazil: $1,496,074
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM): $1,382,490
Thailand: $1,358,544
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation: $1,356,530
UCB SA: $1,042,736
Americans for UNFPA: $767,690
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, UK: $711,525
Bayer AG: $600,148
Bristol-Myers Squibb: $580,000
Merck: $592,252
Grand Challenges Canada: $424,767
Ford Foundation: $400,000
The Government of Macao, SAR, People’s Republic of China: $400,000
The Northern Territory Government Of Australia: $365,580
American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $363,929
Rockefeller Foundation: $300,000
University of Bergen: $220,380
President & Fellows of Harvard College: $219,557
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.: $182,881
Syngenta Crop Protection AG: $160,000
Government of Western Australia: $139,000
BASF Corporation: $133,746
University of Antwerp: $130,000
The Government of Hong Kong, SAR, People’s Republic of China: $113,991