Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Adding to the Innovation Ecosystem: Announcing Five New Grand Challenges Calls
Steven Buchsbaum, deputy director of discovery and translational sciences in the global health program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses the foundation’s five new Grand Challenges calls, including working within existing food systems to improve nutrition; using tools and technology for disease surveillance of crop plants; developing innovations to improve immunization systems; using data science approaches to improve maternal and child health in Brazil; and preventing Campylobacter infections in children (3/6).