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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 ...
Bill Gates talks with polio survivors Why is polio eradication important? On his recent trip to Brussels, Bill Gates sat down with polio survivors and their families (hosted by Jacob Beautemps from Breaking Lab) to learn about their experiences with this preventable disease.
Reflections on the global COVID-19 response. The Gates Foundation invites you to join our co-chairs and global health experts in a series of working dinners. Watch as they share in both a meal and reflections on COVID-19 learnings that might help us prevent the next pandemic. Watch The Working Dinner video series.
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 ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
A bet on humanity worth every dollar. The story behind one of the riskiest ventures our foundation has ever attempted. Bill Gates writes about his hobbies, personal interests, and things he does for fun, including reading books and playing pickleball.
Nov 23, 2020 · Bill Gates vaccinating a baby against polio in 2002 in Andhra Pradesh, India. The disease is one of many his foundation has battled around the world.
