SEATTLE, COPENHAGEN, LONDON (January 22, 2026) – The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome today awarded a total of $60 million in new grant funding over the next three years to ...

Getting a vaccine can take just seconds. But long before a health worker nurse puts a needle in your arm, that vaccine has already traveled a remarkable distance—from research labs to clinical trials ...

Did you know that our agriculture has a direct connection to the economic development of major countries around the world?

When I look at financials, I see within the columns and rows of numbers the story of an organization. If you spend enough time with the data, it starts to tell you not just what the organization does, ...

Bill Gates recently announced that the Gates Foundation would spend $200 billion in the next 20 years. Since we were created 25 years ago, we have spent $100 billion. I feel extraordinarily fortunate ...

An estimated 218 million women in low- and middle-income countries still have an unmet need for modern contraception, and the United Nations estimates that 19% of women in sub-Saharan Africa have an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to this week's article on malaria, we also introduce you to a new series, Sick History. In this first episode, Dr. Jennifer Gardy walks through the history of malaria and the tools we have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, if you lived in one of the 100 countries where malaria was endemic and your child got a fever and chills, chances are you wouldn’t get a definitive diagnosis. The health clinic you ...