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US government investment in global health R&D has delivered

$26.4 million
to Arizona research institutions
350+ new jobs
for Arizona
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Neglected diseases in Arizona

Chikungunya cases
Chikungunya cases
45
Dengue cases
Dengue cases
150
HIV diagnoses
HIV diagnoses
6052
Malaria cases
Malaria cases
157
Tuberculosis cases
Tuberculosis cases
1970
West Nile cases
West Nile cases
739
Zika cases
Zika cases
56
Arizona's top USG-funded global health R&D institutions

Arizona's top USG-funded global health R&D institutions

University of Arizona
$13.6 million
Arizona State University
$11.8 million
The Translational Genomics Research Institute
$951 thousand
Arizona industry in global health R&D

Arizona industry in global health R&D

BCR Diagnostics
Location(s): Chandler
Celgene
Location(s): Phoenix
Yaso Therapeutics
Location(s): Phoenix

Arizona's top areas of global health R&D by USG funding

28.4%
Malaria
11.3%
Tuberculosis
19.5%
Diarrheal diseases
11.1%
Salmonella infections
5.3%
Bacterial pneumonia & meningitis
22%
Neglected tropical diseases
Buruli ulcer
Dengue
Kinetoplastids
1.6%
Other
Non-allocable
Global health R&D at work in Arizona
Global health R&D at work in Arizona

Arizona State University researchers have developed a technology to turn smartphones into a low-cost microscope to detect tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. The team took an expensive technology called dark-field microscopy, which allows scientists to more clearly see brightly lit samples against a black background, and adapted it for low-resource settings. They created an easy-to-use mobile phone attachment that combines a $1 LED light with a condenser to help focus light onto a sample. The tool also contains a slide reader and slides customized to detect a specific disease and its severity. This simple, portable technology could be a valuable new tool for health workers on the front lines of triaging outbreaks around the world.

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Footnotes
  • Methodology
  • USG global health R&D investment to state research institutions/Top USG-funded global health R&D institutions: Authors' analysis of USG investment data from the G-FINDER survey, including funding for R&D for neglected diseases from 2007–2015 and for Ebola and select viral hemorrhagic fevers from 2014–2015. Reflects USG funding received by entities in state including academic and research institutions, product development partnerships, other nonprofits, select corporations, and government research institutions, as well as self-funding or other federal agency transfers received by federal agencies located in state; but excludes pharmaceutical industry data which is aggregated and anonymized in the survey for confidentiality purposes. See methodology for additional details.
  • Jobs created: Based on previous analysis of the economic impact of National Institutes of Health R&D funding and author's analysis described above. See methodology for additional details.
  • Case study photo: Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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