News Type: Press Release

SEATTLE (January 21, 2015) —  Today, Bill and Melinda Gates share their 2015 Annual Letter. “Our Big Bet for the Future” addresses the breakthroughs they see coming over the next…

SEATTLE (January 7, 2015) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today introduced The Art of Saving a Life project, a new initiative that brings together more than 30 world-renowned musicians, writers,…

SEATTLE (November 18, 2014) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will be supporting efforts in Guinea and other Ebola-affected countries to scale up the production and evaluation…

NEW ORLEANS (November 2, 2014) – Calling the Ebola epidemic a “critical moment in the history of global health,” Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today…

PARIS (October 14, 2014) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) has received the third annual Gates Vaccine Innovation Award in recognition…

SEATTLE (October 13, 2014) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the appointment of Miguel Veiga-Pestana as Chief Communications Officer. Veiga-Pestana joins the foundation from Unilever, where he…

SEATTLE (October 7, 2014) – At an event in Seattle commemorating the tenth anniversary of Grand Challenges, a group of international partners today announced three new initiatives aimed at creating…

SEATTLE (September 30, 2014) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced seven finalists in a $20 million challenge to develop next generation digital courseware that personalizes instruction based…

DELHI, INDIA (September 18, 2014) – Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, has said that the government is confident of reducing the newborn (birth to 28 days) mortality rate to single digit…

SEATTLE (September 10, 2014) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will commit $50 million to support the scale up of emergency efforts to contain the…