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
Ask a room full of people how to fight malaria, and you’ll likely hear about bed nets, vaccines and healthcare infrastructure — all good answers. But there’s one critical piece… 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
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
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
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
For years, the Global Good Fund has been working on a malaria-hunting microscope powered by artificial intelligence, and now China-based Motic is taking advantage of the technology to create EasyScan… 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
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
Bill Gates is once again enlisting the help of his blog followers in his effort to do some philanthropic good. In a new post on Gates Notes titled “Mosquito Wars,”… 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
When Dr. Sebastian Mikolajczak joined Seattle’s Center for Infectious Disease Research eleven years ago, he had a job to do: create a vaccine for malaria. Easier said than done. Although malaria… Read More
PATH, the Seattle-based global heath nonprofit, is opening a new Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, funded initially through an $11 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Within its… Read More
Intellectual Ventures’s Global Good division has teamed up with General Electric to create a new test for malaria that’s designed to spot even the parasites that cause the disease, even… Read More