Health
How Health spent its budget in fiscal year 2019-20, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2019-20,
$5.54B
was spent by Health
In FY 2019-20,
1.5%
of federal spending was by Health
How did Health spend its budget in 2019-20?
Spending by entity, FY 2019-20
Department of Health
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Public Health Agency of Canada
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
$2.68B
$1.2B
$892.6M
$752.3M
$13.3M
Health’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 1995–2025
Line items
Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Other transfer payment | Strengthening Canada's Home and Community Care and Mental Health and Addiction Initiative | $1,099,745,825 |
| Grants | Grants for research projects and personnel support | $997,859,990 |
| Contributions | Contributions to individuals and organizations to support health promotion projects in the areas of building community capacity, stimulating knowledge development and dissemination, and partnership building/intersectoral collaboration | $90,932,055 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Institute for Health Information | $88,158,979 |
| Contributions | Contributions to non-profit organizations to support, on a long-term basis, the development and provision of preventative and early intervention services aimed at addressing the health and developmental problems experienced by young children at risk in Canada | $84,115,630 |
| Contributions | Contribution to Canada Health Infoway | $74,440,696 |
| Contributions | Substance Use and Addictions Program | $51,481,773 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer | $50,846,986 |
| Grants | Canada First Research Excellence Fund | $43,803,272 |
| Contributions | Official Languages Health Contribution Program | $39,369,999 |
| Contributions | Contributions to incorporated local or regional non-profit Aboriginal organizations and institutions for the purpose of developing early intervention programs for Aboriginal pre-school children and their families | $36,378,087 |
| Grants | Territorial Health Investment Fund | $27,000,000 |
| Grants | Canada Graduate Scholarships | $25,246,441 |
| Contributions | Contribution to the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health | $23,058,769 |
| Contributions | Contributions in support of the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS | $22,710,441 |
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Health figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.
