Gates Foundation: Looking back at COVID-19 in 2020: A Q&A with Hari Menon “M. Hari Menon, head of the foundation’s India office, wrote on India’s initial COVID-19 response in May 2020. We caught up with him to discuss his thoughts on the pandemic at the end of the year and…

AFP/YouTube: Virus hunters delve into Gabon forest in search for next threat | AFP (12/16). Devex: Q&A: The woman tasked with bringing gender to the center of the Gates Foundation (Cheney, 12/17). Devex: Q&A: Addressing polio through a gender lens (12/17). Devex: How a new data portal aims to accelerate…

Think Global Health: COVID-19: An Investment in Our Economy William A. Haseltine, chair and president of ACCESS Health International (12/10). Think Global Health: Why Mass Vaccination in the West Could be Bad News for Chinese Leaders Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, director…

Devex: Gates Foundation COVID-19 commitment reaches $1.75B with latest pledge “The world is ‘not on track’ for an equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout, according to Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Despite the unprecedented pace of progress in research and development for COVID-19 vaccines, a number of…

AP: Hundreds ill, 1 dead due to unidentified disease in India (12/7). Financial Times: What HIV taught Matshidiso Moeti about Covid-19 (Gross, 12/5). Health Policy Watch: Economic Benefits Of ACT Accelerator Outweigh Costs, Says Eurasia Group (Santos, 12/4). New York Times: Why Melinda Gates Spends Time ‘Letting My Heart Break’…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Missing Perspectives: How women are left out of the news Susan Byrnes, chief communications officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Luba Kassova, co-founder and director at AKAS (12/2). Poynter: The ‘missing perspectives of women in news’ is alarming and grim, a new…

The Guardian: Public trust vital for Covid-19 vaccine programs, says WHO “The WHO has urged European countries to prepare for vaccinations against Covid-19, stressing that community acceptance will be crucial to the success of the health programs. More than 200 Covid vaccines are under development, some of which have already…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Melinda Gates: Will the world be generous enough to defeat COVID-19? Melinda Gates, co-chair at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (11/12). WHO: Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator commitments reach US$ 5.1billion following new contributions, including at Paris Peace Forum (11/13). WHO: Guidance on developing…

Science: The polio eradication campaign is faltering. Can a new vaccine help it get back on track? “The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is about to roll out a brand-new vaccine — one that its leaders desperately hope will turn the flagging effort around. If it works as expected, the…

AP: ‘It was so abrupt’: COVID-19 upends burial rites in Cameroon (Fonyuy, 10/14). AP: Iran virus death toll hits record high, 3rd time in a week (Vahdat et al., 10/14). CNBC: Bill Gates slams U.S. on Covid: Most governments listen to their scientists, not attack them (Belvedere, 10/14). CNBC: WHO…