Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: My Three Days at the Epicenter of Global Health Ingenuity and Transformation
Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, discusses the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, which took place last week in London. Mundel writes, “The beauty of this conference is that it really is building a community that wouldn’t exist without it. With the geographical and disciplinary diversity of the attendees — say, environmental engineers from Mauritius and developmental economists from China — many of them would never run into each other in the normal course of their lives, even though they’re chasing the same goal: a better life for the poorest people in the world…” (11/8).