This year’s annual letter from Bill and Melinda Gates is literally a letter—to their friend Warren Buffet who plowed most of his fortune into the Gates Foundation in 2006. The renowned investor asked them to reflect on the Foundation’s last 10 years. They responded with…
"Philanthrocapitalism,” such as the $3 billion Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by 2100,” seems motivated by generosity, but has implications for public health warn editor Jocalyn Clark and Linsey McGoey.
The Breakthrough Foundation treated more than a thousand scientists like rock stars last night, giving out $25 million in annual prize money. Founded by Silicon Valley giants including Yuri Milner and Julia Milner; Sergey Brin; Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, each…
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded its $2 million Humanitarian Prize to the Task Force for Global Health, which promotes collaborative work to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, increases access to vaccines, and improves disease-outbreak response. The…
Diane Newman, a molecular geomicrobiologist and self-proclaimed “Pied Piper of microbes,” sat down with Scientific American this week to discuss her MacArthur “genius” grant. Newman’s research focuses on microbes that can survive in low-oxygen environments and may further…
To celebrate the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Centennial, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and 3-term New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg honored global health luminaries including Bono and Dr. Margaret Chan at an event in New…
