Impatient Optimists
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Kim Hamilton

Title Deputy Director for Policy and Advocacy
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kimberly Hamilton, PhD is deputy director for Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and oversees a grantmaking portfolio designed to bring more and better resources and ideas to critical development challenges.

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Rethinking the Marketplace for Ideas

December 06, 2011 / Kim Hamilton

Good ideas and well-designed policies know no boundaries, but researchers and think tanks in rich countries still dominate the marketplace of ideas—despite new technologies that have globalized knowledge.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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