Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value

President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gender Equality Division, Dr. Anita Zaidi, has a focus group with Oraan, Pakistan’s first women-led women-first fintech startup, at the Oraan office in Karachi, Pakistan on September 8, 2022.
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Elzaan (L), a pharmacist at the M72 BePart Yoluntu Clinical Trial Site, demonstrates to CEO Mark Suzman how a TB vaccine is prepared in Western Cape, South Africa.

The head of the Gates Foundation on how to keep helping the poor as aid shrinks

Prepare for the first step back in development progress this century, writes Mark Suzman.
By Mark Suzman CEO, Board Member, Gates Foundation
Jennifer Gardy, deputy director at the Gates Foundation, looks inside a solar fridge during CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

Six innovations transforming the future of global health

By Jennifer Gardy Deputy Director, Malaria Surveillance, Data, and Epidemiology, Gates Foundation