Vaccines, Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
At the third global Teach to Reach Summit, participants learned how to turn their ideas for how to improve workforce capacity into action.
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October 18, 2018 / Christopher Elias, Trevor Mundel
The Gates Foundation recently announced that we’re opening a new European office in Berlin, and we are holding our annual Grand Challenges meeting in Germany’s capital city as well. Neither the time nor the place is a coincidence. Germany is an emerging leader in global health. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the World Health Summit, an annual convening of global health leaders hosted by Germany with the co-sponsorship of other European Union nations.
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October 08, 2018 / Amanda Beal, Dr. Bhupendra Tripathi
August 27, 2018 / Steven Buchsbaum
Nearly fifteen years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges—a landmark initiative to fund promising early-stage scientific innovations that could prevent, treat and cure diseases in the developing world.
July 25, 2018 / 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 program.
July 18, 2018 / Jack Langenbrunner, Nachiket Mor
Everybody faces the possibility of incurring medical expenses at short notice. You are better off if you regularly put a fixed sum of money into a pool and relied on this to pay for unpredictable expenses (Shutterstock)
