{"entity":{"id":"idea-fund-dollars-per-death-dashboard","kind":"idea","name":"A public dashboard of research money per death for every cancer","aka":[],"tldr":"A simple website that shows, every year, how much research money each cancer receives compared with how many people it kills, so the gaps are impossible to ignore.","summary":"Combine machine-readable grant data (NIH RePORTER, the International Cancer Research Partnership, UKRI Gateway to Research, EU CORDIS, and charity annual reports) with mortality and DALY data to publish research dollars per death, per DALY and per incident case, by cancer type and by Common Scientific Outline category (biology, prevention, detection, treatment, survivorship). Include a trend line and a 'what would burden-weighted look like' comparison. Cheap, because most of the data are already public; the value is the persistent, cited visibility.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"NIH RePORTER","url":"https://reporter.nih.gov/"},{"label":"International Cancer Research Partnership","url":"https://www.icrpartnership.org/"}],"tags":[],"related":["globocan","seer","idea-fund-burden-weighted-portfolio","idea-fund-white-space-map"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-funding-allocation","b-knowledge-diffusion"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"Annual publication of a widely-cited dollars-per-death ranking shifts relative funding: within five years the coefficient of variation of spend per death across the 15 most common cancers falls measurably, and funders cite the dashboard in strategy documents.","rationale":"League tables change behaviour when they are public and persistent: hospital mortality reporting, university rankings and the Access to Medicine Index all altered institutional priorities. Cancer-specific funding gap analyses appear as one-off papers and are forgotten; a living dashboard is not.","test":"Build the dashboard from public sources in under a year; measure media citations, funder strategy citations and changes in spend allocation over three cycles against a pre-registered prediction of no change.","maturity":"speculative","actor":"data","cost":"small","horizonYears":1},"route":"/ideas/idea-fund-dollars-per-death-dashboard/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"globocan","kind":"collection","name":"GLOBOCAN / Global Cancer Observatory","route":"/collections/globocan/"},{"id":"seer","kind":"collection","name":"SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results)","route":"/collections/seer/"}],"idea":[{"id":"idea-fund-white-space-map","kind":"idea","name":"An annual map of high-burden questions that nobody is funding","route":"/ideas/idea-fund-white-space-map/"},{"id":"idea-fund-burden-weighted-portfolio","kind":"idea","name":"Burden-weighted portfolio targets for every major cancer funder","route":"/ideas/idea-fund-burden-weighted-portfolio/"},{"id":"idea-fund-cross-funder-portfolio-registry","kind":"idea","name":"Mandatory machine-readable portfolio reporting for all large cancer funders","route":"/ideas/idea-fund-cross-funder-portfolio-registry/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"},{"id":"b-knowledge-diffusion","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Knowledge reaches practice too slowly","route":"/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/"}]}}