Gates Foundation: “Catalytic Philanthropy” Seeking “Global Health Equity”

Abstract

“People are willing to have standing armies for war. We need to do something similar for public health,” says Bill Gates, cofounder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Wash., and former head of Microsoft. He spoke during the opening keynote session, “A Conversation with Bill Gates: Bringing the Frontiers of Science to the Front Lines of Development,” convened at the 2016 ASM Microbe Meeting, held in Boston, Mass., in June.