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With nearly a third of the world’s population lacking steady access to adequate food, it’s no secret that our food systems are failing. As diet-related diseases skyrocket, global temperatures rise, and ecosystem …

The Covid-19 Energy Access Relief Fund (EARF) is an alliance of 16 governments, foundations, and investors, providing emergency capital to off-grid energy providers in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in order …

SARS-CoV-2 has already mutated since it was first identified and will continue to do so. Robust global genomic sequencing is the best tool for tracking existing variants and detecting …

Myths about Covid-19 vaccines abound: “The Covid-19 vaccines will make you infertile” “Covid-19 vaccines don’t work” “The government put a microchip in the Covid-19 vaccines” “The Covid-19 vaccines create variants” Each of those statements is …

As Covid-19 spread across the world last year, its impacts were fast and society-wide, ravaging health and livelihoods alike. The question quickly became: How can our societies respond with equivalent …

What if you made it much easier for workers of color to become business owners, and thus build wealth much faster? What if you offered creative, revenue-based loans to underserved …

It’s been just over one hundred days since Dr. Rick Bright joined The Rockefeller Foundation to lead its  pandemic prevention institute, which aims to contribute to the global work of …

Last summer, following George Floyd’s murder and Black Lives Matter protests nationwide American corporations committed $50 billion toward advancing racial equity. And yet, as Fortune reported last month, a year later only $250 million has in fact …

Albert Einstein once famously said if he were given an hour to solve a problem, he’d spend 55 minutes understanding it, and then take just five minutes developing solutions. That formula …