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Accelerating the health impact of the Gates Foundation
2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 373; Issue: 9675 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(09)60886-2
ISSN1474-547X
AutoresRobert E. Black, Maharaj Kishan Bhan, Mickey Chopra, Igor Rudan, César G. Victora,
Tópico(s)Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
ResumoIn recent years the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made enormous investments in global health. As a private foundation, it can decide its agenda, yet because of the huge influence it has, especially on research that addresses the major health problems of low-income countries, its decisions and priorities have become the subject of intense interest by the global health community. In The Lancet today, 1 McCoy D Kembhavi G Patel J Luintel A The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's grant-making programme for global health. Lancet. 2009; 373: 1645-1653 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (178) Google Scholar David McCoy and colleagues' description of the grant commitments by the Foundation provides an opportunity for analysis that may form part of a “natural feedback loop” that Bill Gates said in his first annual letter was currently missing. 2 Gates B 2009 annual letter from Bill Gates. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/2009-bill-gates-annual-letter.aspxDate: January, 2009 Google Scholar Such informal scrutiny could assist the Foundation to assess whether its investments are consistent with its mission and appropriately balanced to achieve optimum results. What has the Gates Foundation done for global health?The answer to this question is: a great deal, but… Full-Text PDF The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's grant-making programme for global healthThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a major contributor to global health; its influence on international health policy and the design of global health programmes and initiatives is profound. Although the foundation's contribution to global health generally receives acclaim, fairly little is known about its grant-making programme. We undertook an analysis of 1094 global health grants awarded between January, 1998, and December, 2007. We found that the total value of these grants was US$8·95 billion, of which $5·82 billion (65%) was shared by only 20 organisations. Full-Text PDF
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