NIH: NIH announces $1 million prize competition to target global disease diagnostics “The National Institutes of Health has launched a $1 million Technology Accelerator Challenge to spur the design and development of non-invasive, handheld, digital technologies to detect, diagnose, and guide therapies for diseases with high global and public health…

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “The Optimist”: A letter from our CEO, Mark Suzman: Reflections to guide our next twenty years Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reflects on the Gates Foundation’s 20th anniversary and the future of the foundation, writing, “I am convinced that with…

allAfrica: Africa: We Can Make Our World Better — Mark Suzman of Gates Foundation (Williams, 2/20). AP: Yemen’s Houthi rebels impeding U.N. aid flow, demand a cut (Michael, 2/19). AP: 2nd person dies amid dengue epidemic in French Caribbean (2/19). Devex: Australia’s new international policy directions revealed (Cornish, 2/20). Financial…

GatesNotes: Why we swing for the fences In their 2020 annual letter, Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reflect on the first two decades of the Foundation’s existence, highlighting the Foundation’s global health efforts, including their relationships with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global…

ONE: ONE’s top takeaways from the 2020 Gates Letter Sadof Alexander, digital coordinator at the ONE Campaign, highlights four key takeaways from the 2020 annual letter from Bill and Melinda Gates: “1. Investments in health pay off. … 2. There’s no one solution to education. … 3. Farmers need more support.…

Vox: The surprising strategy behind the Gates Foundation’s success “Over the first 20 years of its existence, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spent $53.8 billion on its various programs, the Gateses announced in their annual letter for 2020. The large majority of that spending, about $39.8 billion, went to…

Business Insider: The Gates Foundation is spending $100 million to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Bill Gates has warned about a pandemic for years. “As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Wednesday that it is contributing $100 million toward the…

CBS: These were the most underreported humanitarian crises in 2019, according to a new report (Ott, 1/28). Health24: Deadly Marburg virus pops up in West-Africa for the first time — shouldn’t we be taking more notice? (Wilke, 1/29). Homeland Preparedness News: New reports show weak pipeline for antibiotics against drug-resistant…

FierceBiotech: GSK hands TB vaccine to Gates Foundation’s nonprofit biotech “GlaxoSmithKline has licensed a tuberculosis vaccine to the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (MRI). The deal sets the stage for a push to build on recent phase 2b data and make the vaccine available in low-income countries where…

Business Insider: The Gates Foundation is spending $10 million to fight the coronavirus outbreak in China and Africa. Bill Gates has warned about a pandemic for years. “As a coronavirus continues to spread around the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday that it is contributing $10 million…