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Program directory · Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Priority-Driven Health Research

Program code
BDX00 (CIHR)
Core responsibility
Canada is a world leader in the creation, dissemination and application of health research knowledge.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Priority-Driven Health Research 2010-11: $196MPriority-Driven Health Research 2011-12: $183MPriority-Driven Health Research 2012-13: $173MPriority-Driven Health Research 2013-14: $169MPriority-Driven Health Research 2014-15: $288MPriority-Driven Health Research 2015-16: $308MPriority-Driven Health Research 2016-17: $339MPriority-Driven Health Research 2017-18: $343MPriority-Driven Health Research
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Priority-Driven Health ResearchThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$2B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2014-15Employees (FTEs) 142, against 14 in 2013-14 (+914%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Spending $288M, against $169M in 2013-14 (+70%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Employees (FTEs) 113, against 142 in 2014-15 (−20%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $169M2013-142014-15: $288M2014-152015-16: $308M2015-162016-17: $339M2016-172017-18: $343M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$169M
2014-15—$288M
2015-16—$308M
2016-17—$339M
2017-18—$343M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 142013-14: 142013-142014-15: 1322014-15: 1422014-152015-16: 1362015-16: 1132015-162016-17: 1042016-17: 1102016-172017-18: 1222017-18: 1252017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-141414
2014-15132142
2015-16136113
2016-17104110
2017-18122125

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.