We are living through the fastest expansion of capability in human history. Artificial intelligence can now advise, diagnose, tutor, and translate at a level that would have seemed impossible just a ...

Artificial intelligence, if applied in the right ways, could vastly accelerate global progress in health, education, and economic opportunity. But one major barrier is keeping AI from achieving its ...

Shelly Sundberg leads the Agricultural Development team’s efforts to support women working in agriculture, improve access to nutritious and affordable foods, and develop and implement climate adaption ...

to support five partners in the development of a learning mobility and value ecosystem based on portable memory and strong governance as a backbone organization. How we work ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in modest circumstances in Côte D’Ivoire, we didn’t have a decent toilet at home. I didn’t even know this was a problem. Only years later, at university, after I talked to friends studying ...

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 ...

When Yaw Bediako saw scientists and researchers departing Ghana, he made a life-changing pivot to keep brilliant minds in his country. After a grueling year of applications, interviews, and anxiety, ...

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 ...

This is a story about how change happens in public health. Specifically, it’s a story about how a lifesaving vaccine called PCV became available to all children in India—and to the wider world, ...

It seems obvious that women’s bodies differ from men’s, even at the cellular level. After all, every cell has a sex. Yet science and medicine have historically overlooked these sex- and gender-based ...