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GRANTEE ANNOUNCEMENT
September 14, 2009 

Is Transport the Key to Reducing Deaths in Africa?

Groundbreaking social enterprise and leading US university to show impact of reliable transportation on reducing preventable disease in Africa

The British-founded not-for-profit organisation Riders for Health has announced a landmark partnership with Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in a five-year project funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

‘For years, Riders for Health has been an effective logistics arm, serving as the last mile for health care delivery in Africa.  We are very privileged to be partnering with them to make use of supply chain and logistics advances to scale up their operations.  We are pleased that Riders’ grant from the Gates Foundation means that we can support Riders to save lives, while at the same time pushing the research frontier on the important subject of health delivery logistics,’ Said Hau Lee,Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business, and Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum at Stanford University.

For the full press release, visit the Riders for Health web site.

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Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
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