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: ...

NEW YORK (July 17, 2025) – Today, a coalition of foundations and philanthropists—Ballmer Group, Gates Foundation, Stand Together, Valhalla Foundation and John Overdeck—announced NextLadder Ventures, a ...

We are deeply concerned by the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak affecting communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, the ...

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 document and disseminate findings from the global and country Zero Dose Learning Hubs (ZDLH) ...

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 ...

Malaria has been around for a long time, and yet it’s constantly evolving. The mosquitoes that transmit malaria have a remarkable ability to adapt and overcome our best defenses. In the face of ...

I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

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 ...

When I was doing HIV/TB research many years ago in Vietnam, I frequently encountered this issue, and it continues to be a problem today. Emmanuel Mugisha, director of PATH’s work for the Typhoid ...