Jan 01 2003The Foundation convenes a Joint Learning Initiative on Human Resources for Health (JLI-HRH), which brought the crisis of HRH in developing countries and the international brain drain of doctors and nurses to the top of the international agenda.
Jan 01 2001The Foundation funds Living Cities, a partnership of foundations, financial institutions, government agencies, and local community development corporations to assist in the redevelopment of inner-city neighborhoods, including affordable housing, in 23 cities across the United States.
Jan 01 2001The Foundation convenes several foundations to support integrated AIDS care for mothers and their families in Africa. The initiative, called MTCT Plus, was launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations and helped catalyzed WHO’s call to treat millions of people living with AIDS in poor countries.
Jan 01 2000The Foundation joins the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in supporting the improvement of higher-education institutions in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries.
Jan 01 1999The Foundation supports the creation of the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network to strengthen national and sub-regional capabilities in disease surveillance and response to outbreaks of priority diseases in the six countries of the region.
Jan 01 1998The Foundation introduces an initiative on public-private partnerships in research and development for neglected diseases of poverty to support the establishment of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, the International Partnership on Microbicides, the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, and the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property Rights in Health R&D.
Jan 01 1997The final group of Social Science Research Fellows in Agriculture is selected. Established in 1975, this program enables young social scientists to work on agricultural and rural development projects while based at universities and research institutions in developing countries.
Jan 01 1997The Foundation announces a new initiative on Global Health Equity to establish the conceptual foundations for considering equity in health with empirical assessments of the scale and nature of health inequities and assessments of relevant policy implications.
