New York Times: Melinda Gates: Eliminating Bias in Family Planning Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…As the largest generation in history enters its reproductive years, the evidence tells us that bias is one of the biggest barriers standing between these 1.8 billion young people and…

Times of India: Six months, two thousand feeds: It is essential to recognize that breastfeeding is not only the mother’s responsibility Alok Ranjan, India’s country lead for nutrition at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…In India, analysis of breastfeeding trends shows that, over the last decade, the percentage of…

Hindustan Times: To save lives of children, diagnose and treat their social vulnerability Tracey Johnson, senior program officer for Integrated Delivery, User Experience and Innovation, and Nachiket Mor, director of the India Country Office, both at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…Recent research has identified that the greatest danger…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Saving Lives with Data Thea Norman, senior program officer in quantitative sciences at the Gates Foundation, discusses a call “for projects that bring together global health experts and data scientists into teams to dig into rich data sets to answer the toughest questions…

Devex: A look at the Global Financing Facility’s goals, strategies, and learnings “…Since [the launch of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in 2015], it has been experimenting with a number of financing models and helping countries develop investment cases for investing in health. It is currently in the midst of…

CNN: Bill Gates jump-starts research for an affordable Alzheimer’s test “…Gates announced [Tuesday] that he has joined a coalition of philanthropists who are investing $30 million to create a venture fund called Diagnostics Accelerator. ‘We need a better way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s — like a simple blood test or eye…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: India can reduce maternal deaths Jerker Liljestrand, senior program officer with the Gates Foundation’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health team, and Nachiket Mor, director of the Gates Foundation’s India Country Office, highlight three methods to reduce maternal deaths due to bleeding after birth,…

Gates Notes: Memorizing these three statistics will help you understand the world In a guest post, Max Roser, founder of OurWorldInData.org and economist at the University of Oxford, highlights three facts on global development “everyone should know,” according to Bill Gates: “Fact #1: Since 1960, child deaths have plummeted from…

Washington Post: If we really want to eradicate diseases such as Ebola, we need a new strategy Heidi Morefield, Ph.D. candidate in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University “…[T]he turn toward high-tech solutions for distribution of vaccines has overshadowed the more pressing issue: the need to solve the…

FT Health: Thanksgiving or tough love for the U.K.’s NHS? The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses the U.K.’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service (NHS) and features an interview with Chris Elias, president of the global development division at the Gates Foundation, in which he discusses…