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...first of the two studies involved 894 children from 5 to 17 months old in Kenya and Tanzania. Part of the group was administered a vaccine being developed by GSK and bankrolled in part by the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, under a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. After receiving the shots, all the babies were visited weekly, and their blood was tested for both the malaria parasite and malaria antibodies. On average, the group that received the injections had a 53% lower infection rate than the control group, and the effect lasted for up to eight months. That still...
...went to a meeting a year or two ago in the Radcliffe Yard honoring [food historian and author] Barbara Wheaton, and there was a lot of discussion about an academic food studies program. I got up and asked everyone, ‘If suddenly Melinda Gates came and offered lots of money for a chair in food studies or food history, would you really want it? Would it seem odd...to have a chair exclusively devoted to food?’ There was a great division in the room.”Sokolov compares the birth of food studies...
...Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Barry R. Bloom as moderator. The panelists included Dr. David E. Bloom, chair of the Department of Population and International Health at HSPH; Dr. Julio J. Frenk, HSPH dean designate; and Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, director of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The forum was directed at the newly elected members of Congress who are participating in a program at the IOP this week. Speaking to the new representatives, Barry Bloom discussed America’s role in global health. “One of the questions I think...
...philanthrocapitalism n.--Also known as venture philanthropy. A business-like approach to charity USAGE: "Leading philanthrocapitalists are giving away unprecedented amounts of money--Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are together handing out about $3.5 billion a year through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." --NEW YORK TIMES...
...Gates noted that his efforts to create national education standards through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundational were being stymied by opposition from members of both political parties...