To enhance Swedish leadership in global health by strengthening public engagement and coalition-building efforts to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations worldwide ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Polycarp Oyoo will never forget his first encounter with postpartum bleeding—the leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide. As a young doctor, he helped a Kenyan mother deliver twins at a ...

Malaria has haunted humanity for thousands of years—its traces even found in the mummy of King Tut. Carried by mosquitoes, malaria is why these tiny insects are easily considered one of the world’s ...

Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...

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 ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

If a person cannot prove who they are, can they take advantage of all of the opportunities society has to offer? For the 850 million people around the world who lack any acceptable form of legal ...

Since January 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than US$2 billion to the global COVID-19 response. Our funding commitments for COVID-19 response draw from three sources: ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the remarkable, unprecedented progress made over the previous two decades in global health and development has stalled, and in many cases even reversed. Sadly, instead of ...