As a child, Nneka Mobisson looked forward to fun times with her family when they traveled together from Nigeria to the United States, but her father had his own ideas. “My father’s idea of fun with ...

Many of the world’s poorest communities are still threatened by deadly infectious diseases that have become rare in wealthier nations. That’s why the foundation has committed more than $27 billion to ...

Carmen Carpio leads the foundation’s engagement with multilateral development banks—including the World Bank, the Global Financing Facility, and the Lives and Livelihoods Fund—on shared global health ...

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 ...

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 ...

To address climate catastrophe, reducing emissions is not enough. New solutions must help smallholder farmers and families adapt to a changing world. If the world does not muster the will to help ...

Whether we’re paying the rent, receiving a paycheck, splitting the cost of a meal, or simply buying a coffee, people in much of the world take digital banking for granted. Everything is handled with a ...

In 2018, UNICEF called Pakistan the riskiest place in the world for newborns because it had the highest infant mortality rate of any nation. Due to a range of factors, including an acute shortage of ...

In the 1990s, Zimbabwe had one dry year every five years. Now it is once every two years, and sometimes the dry years are back-to-back. I have been involved with smallholder farming my entire life.

Thank you for that nice introduction and thank you all for being here. Our foundation is committed to improving people’s lives by supporting cutting-edge R&D around the world—and our partnership with ...

In a recent essay for the Wall Street Journal our co-chair Bill Gates shared the best investment he’s ever made: the $10 billion the Gates Foundation has invested in Gavi, the Global Fund, and the ...

Since January 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than US$2 billion to the global COVID-19 response. Our funding commitments for COVID-19 response draw from three sources: ...