The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $5 million to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Institute for Global Health to promote and implement promising strategies against global health crises.
The Seattle-based foundation was established in 2000 and is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and co-chairs William H. Gates Sr., Bill Gates, and Melinda French Gates. The foundation has an endowment of approximately $33 billion as of December 31, 2006, which includes $1.6 billion from the first installment of the gift from Warren Buffett recorded August 24, 2006.
The funds are being directed to Sir Richard Feacham, CBE, BSc, PhD, DSc(Med), FREng, FICE, FIWEM, HonFFPHM.
Dr. Sir Richard Feacham is:
- Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, UCSF
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Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Founding Director, Institute for Global Health
Feachem was appointed in April 1999 to be the founding Director of the Institute for Global Health (IGH), a joint initiative of UCSF and UC Berkeley. He is Professor of International Health at both schools. Dr. Feachem is the former Director and Senior Advisor for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, and also served for six years as Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The UCSF Global Health Group, headed by Feacham, will first focus on worldwide malaria eradication and an enhanced role for the private sector in strengthening health systems in developing countries.
"The group's first project will be an incredibly important one -- helping to accelerate progress toward the eradication of malaria, a disease that kills thousands of children in Africa every day," said Tachi Yamada, M.D., president of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Program.
Learn more about Dr. Feacham's work here.
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