I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

We begin 2022 at a pivotal moment for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the world. The COVID pandemic has been both a profound shock and a clarion call to action to support the countries and ...

Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...

When Yaw Bediako saw scientists and researchers departing Ghana, he made a life-changing pivot to keep brilliant minds in his country. After a grueling year of applications, interviews, and anxiety, ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

It is one of the cruel ironies of climate change’s impact that the families and communities least responsible for this global crisis are the ones feeling its most extreme repercussions. Africa ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the remarkable, unprecedented progress made over the previous two decades in global health and development has stalled, and in many cases even reversed. Sadly, instead of ...

This is a story about how change happens in public health. Specifically, it’s a story about how a lifesaving vaccine called PCV became available to all children in India—and to the wider world, ...

Like Veronica, the working mother in the video below, access to quality and affordable childcare is very important to me. It enables me to focus on my job knowing that my child is safe. This is not ...

Long before she devoted her life to studying mosquitoes, Corine Ngufor knew their scourge. Growing up in Cameroon, “I was condemned to suffer from malaria,” she says. “My siblings and I would just ...

In her small village in rural Kenya, Josephine Kimonyi is known for making bold moves. In 2014, she and her husband Samuel left a vibrant life in Nairobi to return to Ngumu in southeast Kenya, where ...

In the 1990s, Zimbabwe had one dry year every five years. Now it is once every two years, and sometimes the dry years are back-to-back. I have been involved with smallholder farming my entire life.