The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome will support locally led evaluations of AI tools that have the potential to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries The ...

Belém, Brazil (November 7, 2025) — The Gates Foundation today announced a new commitment to advancing climate adaptation, helping smallholder farmers build resilience to a warming world and protect ...

SEATTLE (January 12, 2026) – The Gates Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, one of Indonesia’s longest-serving and first female minister of finance, as well as the ...

Neil Watkins leads advocacy and communications efforts that serve the programs in the Global Growth & Opportunity Division: Agricultural Development, Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Education, ...

Minouche Shafik is an economist, policymaker, and higher education leader who has spent over three decades in leadership roles across a range of prominent international, national, and academic ...

The world is currently on pause, buying time while an effective vaccine against COVID-19 is developed. Already, several vaccines have entered human trials, and discussions have begun about how the ...

Dr. Valerie Nkamgang Bemo established and leads the foundation’s Emergency Response program, which supports emergency preparedness and relief efforts around the world. Responses have included the 2010 ...

It’s been two years since my last letter, and the world has changed dramatically since then. Faced with compounding crises and competing priorities, leaders everywhere are making hard decisions about ...

We begin 2022 at a pivotal moment for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the world. The COVID pandemic has been both a profound shock and a clarion call to action to support the countries and ...

I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

After years of progress toward health equity and poverty reduction, we are seeing a widening gap between countries and communities on nearly all metrics of global development. The development of new ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...