SEATTLE, COPENHAGEN, LONDON (January 22, 2026) – The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome today awarded a total of $60 million in new grant funding over the next three years to ...

Getting a vaccine can take just seconds. But long before a health worker nurse puts a needle in your arm, that vaccine has already traveled a remarkable distance—from research labs to clinical trials ...

Did you know that our agriculture has a direct connection to the economic development of major countries around the world?

To support global efforts to eradicate infectious diseases and achieve permanent improvements in health by developing, using, and sharing computational modeling tools and promoting quantitative ...

New modeling shows 40 million more children will suffer from hunger’s worst effects by 2050 due to climate change, but immediate action could instead boost health, spur economic growth The Goalkeepers ...

Bill Gates recently announced that the Gates Foundation would spend $200 billion in the next 20 years. Since we were created 25 years ago, we have spent $100 billion. I feel extraordinarily fortunate ...

An estimated 218 million women in low- and middle-income countries still have an unmet need for modern contraception, and the United Nations estimates that 19% of women in sub-Saharan Africa have an ...

Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

It seems obvious that women’s bodies differ from men’s, even at the cellular level. After all, every cell has a sex. Yet science and medicine have historically overlooked these sex- and gender-based ...

Nearly half the world's population lacks access to safe sanitation. Read how we're developing solutions to meet community needs and build climate resilience. About 3.5 billion people—half of the world ...