Why I care about saving lives.
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I’m excited and worried about the era of AI. We need a plan to maximize the good and minimize the bad.
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Science holds the key to stopping deadly pests like mosquitoes and screwworms.
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The end of AIDS used to seem like a pipe dream. But recent scientific discoveries, including a medicine called lenacapavir, can make it a re...
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An Indian company has created a retinal scanner that can detect gestational diabetes—and help bring down the rate of stillbirths.
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Making every minute count
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I'm still an optimist, but these days, my optimism comes with footnotes.
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America’s health aid has been saving lives. Cutting it now is a huge mistake.
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Agnes Nambozo goes to extraordinary lengths to vaccinate children in Uganda.
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During a recent visit to Delhi, I met with three women who are using drones to boost their income and India’s agricultural productivity.
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I planted drought-tolerant seeds, fed and weighed chickens, and used a mobile phone to monitor weather forecasts and local crop prices. Thes...
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How CGIAR is feeding our future
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I know that child mortality is an awful thing to think about. But “why do children die” is one of the most important questions ever, because...
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I dropped Lego off the roof of this building, because who doesn’t love smashing Lego?
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The world has made amazing progress on malaria in the past 20 years. But climate change threatens to slow or even reverse that progress. Her...
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Dr. Mara Lawniczak is a leading evolutionary geneticist who is helping the fight against malaria by studying the genomes of mosquitoes.
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In addition to her innovative field research, Dr. Damaris Matoke-Muhia is working to open the doors to women in community-level initiatives ...
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Get a tour of “Mosquito City,” the world’s largest captive colony of mosquitoes used for researching ways to combat malaria and other mosqui...
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Finding ways to protect soldiers from the mosquito—the world’s deadliest animal—is a top priority at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Walter...
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Everyone knows mosquitoes have a taste for blood, but did you know they have an even bigger sweet tooth? Mosquitoes love sugar. Exploiting t...
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The West African country of Benin this year launched an innovative program to distribute bed nets, one of the most effective tools to help s...
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I loved being in India last week, and I wanted to share a few photos and videos—and some thoughts on why it’s so inspiring to be there. I ca...
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The Jaga Mission is transforming slums in India into thriving communities. Thanks for the incredible visit!
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It was great to visit the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and learn about how they’re developing climate-smart crops in India.
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India is changing the world with breakthrough ideas—as it has for centuries. Here are a few of the ones I'm looking forward to seeing when I...
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In Senegal I got to meet some brilliant researchers who are working on ways to use AI to help the world’s poorest people.
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Brazil’s journey in healthcare and development is inspiring. From lifting people out of poverty to cutting child mortality, the country can ...
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The results of India’s commitment to stopping measles are stunning.
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As big as the problems facing the world are right now, my visit to India last week reminded me that our capacity to solve them is even bigge...
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Guinea worm once infected 3.5 million people every year. Thanks to heroes like Makoy, that number dropped to 13 last year.
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You may want to skip lunch—and probably avoid sushi for dinner—when visiting the world’s foremost museum of parasites in Tokyo. At the quirk...
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Mass Drug Administration in Tanzania
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Record Breaking Generosity
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Neglected No More
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FarmBeats: More data, better farms
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Max Roser three facts everyone should know
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What kangaroos can teach us about saving lives
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The goal of no more pandemics ever is ambitious, but the progress we’ve made over the last two years—including the huge leaps forward we’ve ...
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Vaccines are amazing—but they can be even better. In this video I explain what’s on the cutting edge of immunization.
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If we’re going to make COVID-19 the last pandemic, the world needs to get to work right away on three key areas.
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We need a permanent organization of experts who are fully paid and prepared to mount a coordinated response to a dangerous outbreak at any t...
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Sofonias Tessema is the program lead for the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. S...
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As COVID-19 swept across South Africa, one of the most pressing needs was access to public health information. But UNICEF, in partnership wi...
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Even as the world seeks to end the current COVID-19 pandemic, we need to also be thinking about how to prevent future pandemics. That’s just...
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If there’s ever been a time that we need heroes, it’s now. The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented health and economic challenges, e...
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As COVID-19 spreads across Africa, hospitals across the continent face shortages of basic medical supplies needed to treat the respiratory d...
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The virus that causes COVID-19 is mutating. Here is what you should know if you want to understand how variants are (and aren’t) complicatin...
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When it comes to killing humans, no other animal—not sharks, snakes, or crocodiles—is as deadly as the mosquito. But in the fight against de...
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A year ago, many people feared that COVID-19 disruptions to malaria control and treatment would lead a dramatic increase in malaria deaths. ...
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I explored the hidden history of Brussels’ sewage system—and the role of wastewater in global health—for World Toilet Day.
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Ten years ago, our foundation challenged the world to reinvent the toilet. The world has responded with the power of innovation, developing ...
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Indias war on human waste
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Sanitation Showcase
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Smells of Success
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Omni Processor in Senegal
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I recently got to check out the Omniprocessor, an ingenious machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy, which turns human waste into wa...
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The iron lung was one of the greatest tools to fight against one of the worst outcomes of polio. Today, it’s the iron will of the thousands ...
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Meeting the Musahar
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Data tells us which low- and middle-income countries have great health programs. But we’ve never really understood what made them so good—un...
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Mosquitoes are out biting every night, infecting millions of people with malaria—a disease that kills a child every other minute of every da...
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance works with governments to make sure that every child has access to the lifesaving vaccines they need.
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A new surveillance program in the Seattle area is detecting cases of COVID-19 and helping guide public health responses.
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Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus.
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Exploring Dollar Street
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William Wu changed his career to help the poor
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Why I love fertilizer
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Fixing flaws in photosynthesis could help boost productivity of our most important crops.
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My friend Aliko Dangote and I are working together to fight malnutrition.
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The Future of Farming
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Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
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Why I Would Raise Chickens Share
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Almost Zero: Malaria Elimination in Swaziland
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Nobody Likes Mosquitoes
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Mosquito Wars
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Bill Gates visited the Bread Lab in Washington state where researchers are doing new things with one of the world’s oldest staple foods.
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Join Bill Gates on his trip to visit an Australian Agriculture Company (AACo) facility in Australia where they focus on using data and techn...
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Strong coffee, stronger women
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Lets Make TB History
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There are about a dozen different diseases that are spread to humans by mosquito bites including dengue, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, an...
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South Africa: Virtually There
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a tragedy but as awful as this epidemic has been, the next one could be much worse.
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How Dinosaurs Could Help Us Fight Malnutrition
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Eradicating Malaria in a Generation
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Love Life of Plants Cornell University
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An Eye for Innovation Imagine Cup 2014
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Why Does Hunger Still Exist Africas Table Day One
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Outsmarting Mosquitoes Prosper Chaki Mosquito Week
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What It Takes to Kill Malaria Mosquito Week
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Mosquito Week 2014
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MDGs Dream with a Deadline
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When Bill Gates went to India recently, he got an update on the country's progress with making more-affordable vaccines and more-productive ...
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Mozambique: Mobile Technology for Global Health
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The River of Myths
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World Polio Day A Day to Learn Act Donate
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Partnering With Bono On Foreign Aid
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France Committed to Aid
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Innovations In Polio Mapping
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The Story of Florence
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HIV AIDS Avahan
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Urban Health Initiative
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The Serum Institute of India
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Bill Gates goes to India at least once a year to see the progress of the work the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing there.
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