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  • Saving Lives with Data

    July 25, 2018 by Thea Norman

    Thea Norman, co-lead of the Gates Foundation’s Ki initiative, describes the data challenge the foundation is launching with India’s Biotechnology Council (BIRAC) as part of the Grand Challenges India...  FULL POST ›

Grand Challenges

 

Saving Lives with Data

Thea Norman, co-lead of the Gates Foundation’s Ki initiative, describes the data challenge the foundation is launching with ...

Saving Lives with Data

Thea Norman, co-lead of the Gates Foundation’s Ki initiative, describes the data challenge the foundation is launching with ...

FULL POST ›  India

Agricultural Development

 

Agriculture investment: Time to cultivate a visible hand

The increase in minimum support prices (MSPs), which promises up to 97% increase in return on costs, can become the trigger for ...

Agriculture investment: Time to cultivate a visible hand

The increase in minimum support prices (MSPs), which promises up to 97% increase in return on costs, can become the trigger for ...

FULL POST ›  India

Health Science & Technology

 

Health spends can’t be left to chance

Everybody faces the possibility of incurring medical expenses at short notice. You are better off if you regularly put a fixed ...

Health spends can’t be left to chance

Everybody faces the possibility of incurring medical expenses at short notice. You are better off if you regularly put a fixed ...

FULL POST ›  India

Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

 

India can reduce maternal deaths

n many parts of the world, including in India, profuse and uncontrolled bleeding after birth accounts for more than half of all ...

India can reduce maternal deaths

n many parts of the world, including in India, profuse and uncontrolled bleeding after birth accounts for more than half of all ...

FULL POST ›  India

Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

 

New scientific discoveries can save the lives of preterm babies

The birth of preterm babies is a global challenge. These exciting new discoveries offer great promise and could help both ...

New scientific discoveries can save the lives of preterm babies

The birth of preterm babies is a global challenge. These exciting new discoveries offer great promise and could help both ...

FULL POST ›  India

Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

 

There’s no reason why India can’t reach its development goals

The path forward, however, will need to combine all of our accumulated wisdom of the past with these and other pivotal ideas for ...

There’s no reason why India can’t reach its development goals

The path forward, however, will need to combine all of our accumulated wisdom of the past with these and other pivotal ideas for ...

FULL POST ›  India

Nutrition

 

The path to maximising citizen welfare

Today, the private sector provides ‘public goods’ while the State looks at issues such as law and order

The path to maximising citizen welfare

Today, the private sector provides ‘public goods’ while the State looks at issues such as law and order

FULL POST ›  India

Grand Challenges

 

Grand Challenges: Fueling Innovation in Global Health and Development

Nearly fifteen years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges—a landmark initiative to fund ...

Grand Challenges: Fueling Innovation in Global Health and Development

Nearly fifteen years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges—a landmark initiative to fund ...

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Pacific Northwest Community

 

Every Child is a Work of Art: Let's Help Washington Students Create their Inner Masterpiece

New Deputy Director for the Washington State P-16 Strategy, Jean-Claude Brizard, shares his passion for education and why he's ...

Every Child is a Work of Art: Let's Help Washington Students Create their Inner Masterpiece

New Deputy Director for the Washington State P-16 Strategy, Jean-Claude Brizard, shares his passion for education and why he's ...

FULL POST ›  United States


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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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