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The Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard are the founding funders of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. Since the launch of the CTA, many other donors have joined the initiative, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the UK government, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Avast, Alwaleed Philanthropies, and EQT.
January 23, 2020: Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation’s Global Health Division, writes a note to Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates about the novel coronavirus’s potential global threat on behalf of the outbreak monitoring team. Bill and Melinda immediately approve US$5 million to help the world respond to the threat.
Jan 31, 2020 · Bill Gates (born Oct. 28, 1955) is the principal co-founder of Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest personal-computer software company and one of the largest and most influential technology companies in the world. Since he stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp., he has focused on and contributed billions of dollars to several charities ...
Jan 27, 2021 · In the past, “global health” was rarely used to mean the health of everyone, everywhere. In practice, people in rich countries used this term to refer to the health of people in non-rich countries. A more accurate term probably would have been “developing country health.”. This past year, though, that changed. In 2020, global health ...
Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III, (born Oct. 28, 1955, Seattle, Wash., U.S.), U.S. computer programmer and businessman. As a teenager, he helped computerize his high school’s payroll system and founded a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. At 19 he dropped out of Harvard University and cofounded ...
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Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen, and together the pair established the company as a worldwide leader in business and personal software and services. In 2008, he transitioned from his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus full-time on his ...
