European Commission: E.U. and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation join forces to support health services in Africa “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will contribute €54 million ($62.5 million) to E.U. efforts to strengthen diagnostic health services in sub-Saharan Africa under the External Investment Plan. This cooperation will help to…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: How Germany Can Take the Lead in Global Health Christopher J. Elias, president of Global Development, and Trevor Mundel, president of Global Health, both at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discuss Germany’s role as an emerging leader in global health, highlighting the…

Business Insider: Bill Gates and Ban Ki-moon are recruiting mayors, heads of state, and finance pros around the world on a last-ditch quest to save us from catastrophic heat, drought, and flooding “The bad news about our planet released last week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests…

Agence France-Presse: UNICEF urges health care access for trapped Syrians (10/10). Associated Press: Doctors say refugees banished to Nauru are suicidal (10/11). Bloomberg: Gates Foundation Backs Self-Checkup App’s Africa Expansion (Lauerman/Kahn, 10/10). Business Insider: The startup behind a tool designed to save you a doctor’s visit has partnered with Bill…

USAID: Innovation and Impact Newsletter — September 2018 The September issue of USAID’s Innovation and Impact Newsletter lists several publications featuring the Utkrisht Impact Bond, one of the first impact bonds aimed at reducing maternal and newborn deaths; highlights past and upcoming events, including a recent U.N. General Assembly event…

New York Times: We Were Making Headway on Global Poverty. What’s About to Change? Bill and Melinda Gates, founders and co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…[P]eople, when given tools and opportunity, can defy the odds. This is especially true of young people, because they are determined to…

Devex: Opinion: An untapped approach to ensure healthier mothers and babies Mindy Neiman, director of supply chain management at Merck for Mothers, and Maryjane Lacoste, senior program officer for family planning service delivery and quality at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “What if we knew there was a proven…

FIGO: What is Ahead in Maternal Health Care Worldwide? Jerker Liljestrand, deputy director in the Maternal, Newborn & Child Health program, with responsibilities for innovation, implementation research, and demonstration for scale, and Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen, global head of Maternal Immunization, both at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discuss innovations…

Al Jazeera: Hodeidah ‘cholera cases triple after Saudi-UAE offensive’: Report (10/1). Associated Press: India’s sanitation summit overshadows problems that persist (Schmall, 10/1). CBS News: “Nature is potentially the worst bioterrorist,” says Anthony Fauci (Hymes, 9/26). Daily Nation: Marie Stopes defies ban on advert linked to abortion (Mutua, 9/30). Devex: How…

New York Times: Removing the Barriers for Women Around the Globe “Melinda Gates, co-chairwoman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in conversation with Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times opinion columnist, at the New Rules Summit. The questions and answers have been edited and condensed…” (9/30). New York Times: Taking Action…