Robert Eiss

It's well done http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-4 1 bf-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2je9a7qXd November 1, 2013 11:05 am ° ° ° ° ° An exclusive interview with Bill Gates By Richard Waters The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's tech billionaires believe.

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But eradicating disease just might. << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> ©Amanda Friedman Gates photographed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle in September Bill Gates describes himself as a technocrat.

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But asked whether giving the planet an internet connection is more important than finding a vaccination for malaria, the co-founder of Microsoft and world's second-richest man does not hide his irritation: "As a priority?

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It's a joke." Then, slipping back into the sarcasm that often breaks through when he is at his most engaged, he adds: "Take this malaria vaccine, [this] weird thing that I'm thinking of.

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Hmm, which is more important, connectivity or malaria vaccine?

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I don't." At 58, Bill Gates has lost none of the impatience or intellectual passion he was known for in his youth.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he set up with his wife in 1997 and where he has been working since leaving his full-time role at Microsoft five years ago, gives away nearly $4bn a year.

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Gates Foundation project Partnering with Coca-Cola and Ghana's health services << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> Coca-Cola is found in the remotest places on the planet.

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The foundation is working with the multinational beverage company to use their supply chain expertise to help Ghana's health service improve delivery of vaccines to the most difficult-to-access patients, including more efficient management of refrigeration systems.

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This time around, though, Bill Gates the CEO has had to take a back seat to a less familiar persona: Bill Gates the diplomat.

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When the Gates Foundation made polio eradication a priority five years ago, the global anti-polio effort was running into the sand.

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More than 10 years of progress had given way, at around the turn of the millennium, to a stalemate as vaccination efforts in the countries still harbouring the disease failed to reach the coverage levels needed to push it into extinction.

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(NIH/NIAID) [€]" <EEO niaid.nih.gov>, "Schwetz, Tara (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <{E@ nih.gov> Subject: RE: Need info on BMGF -- Urgent Hi Larry, In reviewing the spreadsheet and links, here are two additions: « As Francis notes, NCI and the Gates Foundation are cost-sharing an HPV vaccine post licensure trial to find out if giving only one dose of either the Cervarix or Gardasil 9 vaccines work the same as giving two doses of these vaccines to young women - The ESCUDDO Study.

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The NIH commitment over that timeframe is $2.2 million I'm unsure if the attached document would be useful to you, given the nature of the request, but if so, attached is a sampling of recent highlights/developments in the NIH-Gates cooperation, including the HIV vaccine cooperation

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Also, I'm digging out info on the Gates contribution to the WorldReport database maintenance (although this would be modest expenditure compared to the collaborative projects Larry has outlined) The Gates Foundation and ICs have made parallel investments surrounding some of the NIH/BMGF working group initiatives, but the funding is not easily sourced (e.g., the contraceptive targets database).

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Francis Collins, attached is a proposed structure for the panel you are joining on December 15, to open the 8th Annual National Institutes of Health/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation workshop.

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The audience will be compromised of some 260 senior scientists from the NIH and the Gates Foundation, as well as several HHS officials.

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As noted, Bill Gates will attend, and immediately prior to the panel, deliver a talk on the need to "focus scientific inquiry on two important sides of the research agenda - survive and thrive - looking past the pandemic to achieving further progress on human health and development, with equity in mind from the outset." I also attach the agenda for the full meeting, which presents an annual opportunity for various NIH-Gates Foundation established working groups to discuss status of present joint activities and future plans.

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Hi Ian, It would be ideal if Dr Fauci's remarks could be around 4 minutes, given the number of panelists and need to give a reasonable margin of time for Q's and A's before concluding the session Also, the audience of course will be reasonably current and informed, constituting some 280 senior BMGF and NIH scientists I hope this abbreviated timeframe is workable and happy to accommodate Dr Fauci's preference if more time is desired No problem hm (NIH/NIAID) [E] Vv ny is set here to deliver some opening remarks.

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Here is the "close hold" advance copy of Bill Gates' talk shared by his office, with the minor caveat that he tends to run off-script a bit and improvise

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Here is the "close hold" advance copy of Bill Gates' talk shared by his office, with the minor caveat that he tends to run off-script a bit and improvise

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