Gates Foundation Grand Challenges — Portfolio
Supports global health innovators through rotating challenge themes in diagnostics, nutrition, and development-focused technologies for public impact.
The Gates Foundation Grand Challenges program is the foundation's principal mechanism for issuing competitive, thematic research funding across global health and development. Launched in 2003 with 14 major scientific challenges and $450 million in initial grants, the program has issued 245 challenge competitions over its history and typically runs 7 to 10 simultaneous open RFPs at any time. Topics…
Rotating competitive RFPs across global health and development themes — including diagnostics, nutrition, disease burden, and AI for development — with 7 to 10 challenges open simultaneously and new topics issued year-round.
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