The Power of Science and Innovation
In the last two decades, scientists and health workers have invented and delivered solutions to treat and prevent deadly diseases. Childhood deaths have been cut in half.
We can cut childhood deaths in half again.
This is the Future of Health:
The innovators saving and improving lives around the world
Advancing health: A journey through science and innovation
This three-part conversation features three distinguished scientists—Professor Kelly Chibale, Dr. Akhona Vava, and Professor Valerie Mizrahi—exploring how science and innovation drive global health progress.
The power of auto-disable syringes
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the dangers of Africa’s reliance on a vulnerable global supply chain.
In 2023, the Gates Foundation made a $4 million dollar grant to Revital, a medical device manufacturing company in Kenya, to expand auto-disable syringe manufacturing in Africa and stabilize supply for routine immunization.
Learn more about the foundation’s work to increase access to health care technologies around the world.
Great ideas come from everywhere
There are new diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines in the research and development pipeline that will be cheaper, more effective, and easier to deliver than the current state-of-the-art. With powerful digital technologies, the world can speed up drug development and deliver care to places healthcare providers couldn’t reach before.
View the foundation’s grants in support of novel technology platform technologies
The first principles guiding our work in AI
Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman shares the first principles on artificial intelligence (AI) that will be used to guide the foundation’s use of AI.
