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Grantmaking Areas
Please read the Global Health program strategy and review the information below carefully before submitting a request for funding to ensure that your project falls within the foundation’s scope.
Grantmaking Areas Funded
Primarily Through Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) |
| In general, the foundation accepts LOIs in the following three areas. Please note that there are some exceptions where the foundation only accepts requests for proposals (RFPs). |
| Priority Diseases and Conditions:
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Other Health Conditions
The foundation supports efforts to address diseases that have a lower overall burden than those noted above, but still have a disproportionate impact in the developing world:
- Helminthic infections: Lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, Guinea worm, and intestinal nematodes.
- Sexually transmitted infections: Gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia.
- Kinetoplastid diseases: Human African trypanosomiasis, visceral leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease.
- Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus.
- Other diseases: Meningitis, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, and trachoma.
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Critical Enabling Strategies
To ensure that life-saving health interventions reach those who need them most, the foundation supports efforts to:
- Mobilize new resources for global health, including innovative financing and product procurement mechanisms.
- Build awareness of global health issues among decision-makers, the media, and the public.
- Strengthen public health leadership.
- Improve the collection and use of data and evidence for global health decision-making.
- Improve the delivery of, and demand for, key products and interventions.
For disease-specific initiatives, also see Priority Diseases and Conditions, above
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Grantmaking Areas Funded
Through Requests for Proposals (RFPs) Only |
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Critical Enabling Technologies
The foundation makes focused investments in science and technology to achieve fundamental scientific breakthroughs, find new platforms for diagnostics, conduct targeted cellular and molecular studies to help develop new health tools.
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Community Health Solutions
The foundation makes one-time grants to implement community-based, short-term initiatives related to the foundation’s priority diseases and conditions.
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Emergency Relief
The foundation provides limited grants to respond to natural and man-made disasters and to build the capacity of relief organizations to respond quickly to disasters.
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