Impatient Optimists
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Julie Sunderland

Title Director, Program-Related Investments
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Julie Sunderland is the director of Program-Related Investments at the foundation.

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The Role of Biotech Investing in the Fight Against Neglected Diseases

June 28, 2012 / Julie Sunderland

Over the next couple of years, we expect to scale-up our biotech investment activity in order to take advantage of opportunities to achieve the kind of transformative innovation that can allow us to provide millions of poor people with cost-effective, life-saving treatments.

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Financial Innovation Produces Progress

March 04, 2011 / Julie Sunderland

During the past few weeks, three of our partners have announced exciting transactions from our program-related investment (PRI) program.

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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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