In his annual end-of-the-year essay, Bill Gates looks ahead to 2023 and the global challenges he hopes to help combat through his philanthropic work. Childhood disease and death, education, climate… Read More
Bill Gates predicts “the end will come” for the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in an interview on Sunday that a return to normal will arrive next year. “We won’t have eradicated… Read More
As part of his work in global health, Bill Gates has warned for years about the potential for an unchecked epidemic to kill millions of people around the world. “An… Read More
Bill Gates spoke with broad optimism about the potential for technology to address some of the globe’s biggest challenges, but struck an ominous tone Friday in discussing the threat posed… 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
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
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
Washington state’s global health organizations employ more than 14,000 people and contributed about $8.8 billion to the state’s economy in 2017, according to estimates from a report released this week… 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
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
A California-based aerial delivery venture called Zipline has unveiled what it calls “the fastest commercial delivery drone on Earth,” capable of flying as fast as 80 mph (128 km/h). Sustained… Read More
Scientists working at several institutions across the globe have identified a new antibody that protects against malaria, a potentially revolutionary discovery that could lead to new and improved malaria treatments… 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
Hemex Health, a Portland, Ore.-based global health startup, has added more cash to fuel its lab-in-a-box devices that can diagnose killer diseases like malaria and sickle cell disease. The company… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Can artificial intelligence help battle malaria and other infectious diseases? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold says it’s time for his company’s AI-enabled microscope to join the fray. “We’ve… Read More
As any geek will tell you, nothing beats a good chart — and as the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s leading philanthropists, Bill Gates has seen his… Read More
As federal leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., to propose a slate of tax and spending cuts Wednesday, hundreds of experts gathered in Seattle for a very different reason: Shaping the… Read More
Cloud computing has quickly become an essential tool for businesses and governments across the world — but for many nonprofits that operate on a tight margin, moving to the cloud… Read More
Seattle’s Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR) announced Wednesday that it will lead a new $11.5 million research project to combat drug-resistant malaria, a serious public health problem in Southeast… Read More
Reducing global poverty and improving health is the axis around which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation revolves — and the massive Seattle-based philanthropy uses data to measure its success in reaching… Read More
Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH announced Wednesday that it has received a $120 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at fueling the organization’s development and deployment… Read More
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the global health nonprofit PATH are working on a groundbreaking initiative in Africa that takes an unexpected approach. The project is all about… Read More
While Amazon continues testing drone delivery systems for popcorn and other consumer goods, a startup called Zipline is expanding its fully operational medical drone delivery system from Rwanda to Tanzania… Read More
Cancer often seems to strike out of the blue, without warning or reason and often without a clear cause. But in some cases, the cause of a cancer is very… Read More
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Tuesday that it has committed $375 million in funding over the next three years to expand access to contraceptives for some of the… Read More
Viruses and parasites are constantly changing. That’s the reason last year’s flu shot isn’t as effective against this year’s flu — the virus has evolved to resist it. The same is true… Read More
As progress is being made against deadly infectious diseases in Africa and other parts of the developed world, a new killer is rearing its head: cancer. Cancer now kills more… Read More
Joseph Mutale’s career reads like many others in the tech industry. He graduated from the University of Austin in Texas, with a math degree in actuarial science, and is now… Read More
There’s a lot of things we take for granted in developed countries: safe drinking water, constant access to electricity and, of course, a sewer system that neatly flushes away our… Read More
Want to play a game? Bill Gates does. The Microsoft founder and noted philanthropist is inviting people to play a virtual game of hide and seek in homes and farms… Read More