Impatient Optimists
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Innovations in science and technology can dramatically improve the health of poor people in the developing world.  We are engaging the world’s scientists to identify new ideas, to fill gaps in scientific knowledge and to create new health solutions that will result in lives saved.

 

Learn more below and visit the program page for more details about our work in this area.

Reflections on the 2013 Global Health Product Development Forum

May 09, 2013 / Trevor Mundel

Trevor Mundel, President of the foundation's Global Health program, talks about his reflections on the 2013 Global Health Product Development Forum and what's needed to accelerate the creation of lifesaving interventions for communities in developing countries.

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Day 4 in Ethiopia: U.S. Nurses See Local Health Facilities Up Close

December 21, 2012 / Jennifer James

This is fourth report in a series from Jennifer James on a visit with Save the Children to learn more about front-line health work in Ethiopia.

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Using Social Networks to Introduce a New Vaccine in Nigeria

November 13, 2012 / Wolfgang Munar, Jessica Shearer

Imagine that we could improve the exchange of information between community health workers and the families whom they attend to, or between implementers of life-saving health programs in Bihar, India.

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Daily Scoop: the Social Media Election & the Poverty Gender Gap

November 08, 2012 / Robin Clewley

The Social Media Election & the Poverty Gender Gap

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What Expert Sushi-Making Can Teach Us About Global Health

November 07, 2012 / Wolfgang Munar, Larry Prusak

Know-how also involves judgment. Skilled practitioners are valued not only for their skills to do something, but also for their ability to evaluate and discern the environment they are working in, and to make choices that aren’t obvious or clearly deductive.

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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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