The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $100 million to a new joint partnership that will support innovation and research that address global health challenges.
- The three-year initiative will focus on solutions geared to people in low and middle-income countries, and includes three areas: climate/sustainability, infectious diseases, and “interactions,” or the interplay between nutrition, immunity, diseases, and developmental outcomes.
- Novo Nordisk Foundation, the charitable arm of pharma giant Novo Nordisk, and Wellcome, a health foundation based in London, also contributed $100 million. A press release announcing the partnership notes that funding for global health is “faltering” amid debt crises and other trends.
- “We’re on the cusp of so many scientific breakthroughs in agriculture, health, and nutrition, and with the right support these innovations will save and improve lives around the world,” Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in a statement. “Every sector has a critical role to play, and we hope this collaboration opens the door for other funders and partners to contribute to scaling up existing innovations and developing the tools of tomorrow.”
