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: ...

To initiate development of a self-limiting tick for sustainable control of the tropical cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus ...

In January 2020, as details began emerging about the potential global threat of a novel coronavirus, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pivoted its work and resources to help address what would ...

The Garden of the Future exhibit debuted at the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London. The exhibit spotlighted the people and partnerships behind some of the incredible innovations that are helping ...

To support pathways field-building efforts in California, highlighting early learnings from California proof points.

To support global efforts to eradicate infectious diseases and achieve permanent improvements in health by developing, using, and sharing computational modeling tools and promoting quantitative ...

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, ...

Women in Africa are more likely to be working than women in other regions, and almost 50% of women in the non-agricultural labor force are entrepreneurs. It is the only region in which women are more ...

As impatient optimists, one question we constantly come back to at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is: What’s Next? However much progress is made, whatever achievements are celebrated, we remain ...

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 ...

Gagandeep “Cherry” Kang is a physician-scientist who leads the foundation’s efforts to address enteric and diarrheal diseases, including by supporting work on diagnostics, genomics, epidemiology, and ...

Disease, conflict, and suffering thrive on poverty. Our global development programs create opportunities for people, communities, and countries to build wealth and invest in their futures. We work to ...