Impatient Optimists
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Steve Landry

Title Deputy Director, Global Health Vaccine Delivery
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Steve Landry is a deputy director on the Global Health Vaccine Delivery team at the foundation.

Posts By Steve Landry

Unique Partnership Breaks Vicious Cycle and Saves Millions of Lives

April 18, 2013 / Steve Landry

The pentavalent story illustrates the impact we can make when the global community pools resources to tackle the world’s most pressing global health issues.

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Who Would Have Imagined?

May 10, 2011 / Steve Landry

Pneumococcal disease, a bacterial infection, is the most common cause of pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading killer of children under five in Yemen, accounting for almost one-quarter of the country’s infant deaths.

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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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