Riders for Health to Scale Up Operations - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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.