Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering… Read More
A three-year-long clinical trial of an HIV vaccine in South Africa, funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by a consortium headquartered at Seattle’s Fred… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is starting up a new nonprofit group that will focus on providing small-scale farmers in developing countries with the tools and innovations they’ll need… Read More
As CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann has seen firsthand how philanthropy can impact human lives on a global scale. On Tuesday, she… Read More
What’s the shape of global health to come? Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued two hopeful predictions for the year 2040 today during a lecture given at the late physicist Stephen… Read More
Bank accounts, cell phones and biometric identification could help spread resources more efficiently and equitably in developing nations, according to a new report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.… Read More
Bill Gates — and what goes on inside his head — is coming to Netflix. A three-part docuseries called “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates” will air on the streaming… Read More
Melinda Gates shared stories of her family life, philanthropic pursuits and her unending push to get more girls and women the standing they deserve in tech as she starred as… Read More
Melinda Gates is one of the world’s most vocal advocates for paid family and medical leave. “We are the only industrialized nation, the only one, that does not have paid… Read More
When we think of what it takes to eradicate infectious diseases, we typically picture health efforts on the front lines. But data is increasingly seen as critical to ensuring that… Read More
In the past two decades, Melinda Gates has worked on some of the greatest challenges in global health, including making vaccinations and family planning more widely accessible. In her new… Read More
With a wave of nationalism sweeping the globe, Bill Gates contends that doing right by the country starts with helping the rest of the world. Disengaging from the world, on… Read More
It all started when two billionaires went to jail. Bill and Melinda Gates visited a Georgia state prison a few years back to try and understand why so many people… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent 20 years and $10 billion on issues of global health. In that time, the likelihood that a child would die before age… Read More
Bill Gates has been thinking about sanitation and toilets ever since he stopped working full time at Microsoft. In those 10 years, sparked by what he saw during increased travel… Read More
A King County judge has found that a former top technology executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is entitled to $4.9 million in damages from lost compensation after… Read More
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, and now he’s facing a puzzling question: How should he give away some of his many billions?… Read More
In 1996, Bill Gates read a story in the New York Times that sparked his passion for health. The story was about a disease he’d never heard of: rotavirus. At… Read More
In tech-focused Seattle, design might often be thought of as a means to deliver another luxury to consumers who demand an increasing amount of convenience in their daily lives. At… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has forged a partnership with Oxitec, a British mosquito control company, to develop mosquitoes that are genetically engineered to suppress malaria. Oxitec’s latest project… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the top forces in global health philanthropy, is embarking on a new kind of venture. The foundation announced last year that it… Read More
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One hundred years ago, an aggressive flu virus killed 675,000 Americans in just 3 weeks. The virus, known as Spanish Influenza or the flu of 1918, went on to kill… Read More
Embed from Getty Images Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, is making his way from one Washington to the other during a U.S. visit, with a planned stop… Read More
Bill and Melinda Gates answered “10 tough questions” in their annual letter, released Tuesday morning. Later in the day, they answered even more questions by taking part in a Facebook… Read More
This year’s annual letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — their 10th such correspondence with the world — takes an unusual approach. Rather than simply touting the organization’s… Read More
Bill Gates is a big-time reader, as we’ve previously noted. But this week we get to see what kind of editor the Microsoft co-founder is, as TIME invited him… Read More
Like! The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook teamed up again for #GivingTuesday, the annual global charitable event aimed at raising money for worthwhile causes. With a plan to… Read More
The Gates Foundation Visitor Center is no more. Instead, say hello to the Gates Foundation Discovery Center. The public education and exhibit galleries, housed in a building across the street… Read More