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Global Survey Grant Proposal

Keywords

war-on-disease, 1-percent-treaty, medical-research, public-health, peace-dividend, decentralized-trials, dfda, dih, victory-bonds, health-economics, cost-benefit-analysis, clinical-trials, drug-development, regulatory-reform, military-spending, peace-economics, decentralized-governance, wishocracy, blockchain-governance, impact-investing

This grant funds a global survey about clinical-trial access, public spending, and government accountability.

The Problem

Millions of people live with diseases that have no effective treatment. About 95% of rare diseases have no FDA-approved treatment, according to the US Government Accountability Office1.

Clinical trials need funding and participants. Governments spent $2.72 trillion on the military in 2024. Redirecting 1% of that amount would reallocate $27.2 billion a year2.

The survey will measure how respondents want public money allocated and whether they support or oppose specific proposals for access to trials and government accountability.

The Questions

A pragmatic clinical trial compares treatments through ordinary healthcare, recording benefits and harms.

  1. Should patients be able to join a pragmatic clinical trial of a promising treatment through their usual healthcare provider, with informed consent?
  2. How should public money be divided between military spending and pragmatic clinical trials comparing promising treatments?
  3. Should patients be allowed to fund and join clinical trials of treatments for their own disease?
  4. Should people have the same right to sue for harm caused by a government as for harm caused by a company?
  5. Should governments measure how their policies affect how long people live in good health and the typical person’s income after taxes and inflation?

The allocation question asks respondents to divide a fixed amount between the two uses. The other questions offer support, oppose, and unsure responses. Wording and translations will be tested before collection begins.

How It Works

Participating nonprofits share the survey through their websites, newsletters, and other existing channels. Each receives a unique link and an anonymized summary of responses submitted through it. Participation does not require endorsing any answer.

The grant pays for a coordinator, survey setup, partner outreach, a small paid-recruitment comparison, and analysis. Recruitment costs, completed responses, duplicate exclusions, and country coverage will be reported.

Responses collected this way are an opt-in sample. Results will describe the respondents, with clear limits on claims about wider populations. Representative country estimates would require a separately specified sampling plan3.

The Grant

Proposed first-year budget: $150,000. These are planning estimates.

Use Amount
Coordinator $80,000
Partner outreach tools and expenses $10,000
Survey hosting, response tracking, and reporting $10,000
Survey materials and design $15,000
Paid recruitment $25,000
Legal and accounting $5,000
Contingency $5,000
Total $150,000

The first-year planning target is 100,000 unique completed responses. Early collection will establish actual recruitment costs and whether that target is feasible.

Schedule and Results

  • Months 1-3: Test the questions, confirm initial partners, and test response verification.
  • Months 4-9: Collect responses and report recruitment costs, completion rates, and coverage.
  • Months 10-12: Publish the findings, full questionnaire, methods, spending, and anonymized summaries.

Results will be published regardless of whether respondents support the proposals. The grant’s measured outputs are completed responses, data quality, coverage, and published findings. Later changes in policy or health outcomes would require separate evaluation.

Sources and Calculation

The funding comparison uses 2024 military spending as a dated baseline. SIPRI reports $2.718 trillion; the calculation rounds this to $2.72 trillion.

\[ \begin{gathered} Funding_{treaty} \\ = Spending_{mil} \times Reduce_{treaty} \\ = \$2.72T \times 1\% \\ = \$27.2B \end{gathered} \]