Defense Health Agency
Administers medical research funding across trauma and disease programmes through the national military health research network.
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Annual funding$1.27B
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Active grants2
Total grants2
About
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is the U.S. Department of Defense combat-support agency responsible for the Military Health System. DHA's primary mechanism for extramural biomedical research is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), which distributes $1.27 billion in FY26 across 34 disease and trauma research programs — one of the largest annual medical research funding po…