The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's grant-making programme for global health

Vaccine innovation, translational research and the management of knowledge accumulation

“…The biggest recent change has been the rise of global, disease-specific Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), such as the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI). Whilst these organisations have played important roles in increasing funding (McCoy et al, 2009), many are based on a social venture capital model which, like commercial venture capital, works best after the knowledge accumulation problems highlighted in this paper have been solved. Few PPPs have the Foundation's ability to direct research, and while private sector actors brings benefits, their increased use of (Racaniello, 2006) Yes, complex transmission by virus hidden inside cells as well as by free virus.…”

Diseases of Poverty: The Science of the Neglected

“…We know for instance that significant funds have been invested into global public health most of which have gone into vertical programmes dealing with the big three and more recently, the neglected tropical diseases (13,52). Data are also available on investments into other programmes designed to meet the other millennium development goals, which also address the vulnerabilities highlighted by the neglected disease advocates.…”

Neglected malarias: The frontlines and back alleys of global health

“…The key generator of that value is the BMGF. With their support, international funding of malaria research and control interventions has quadrupled over the last few years -from $249 million in 2004 to $1.1 billion in 2008 (McCoy et al, 2009). 20 At the heart of the foundation is the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, which seeks to solve world problems through basic research, in Bill Gates's words: 'By harnessing the world's capacity for scientific innovation, I believe we can transform health in the developing world and save millions of lives '.…”