Bill Gates
Microsoft Co-founder | Co-chair of the Gates Foundation
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Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and built it into the world's largest software company. He now co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic organizations globally.
Bill's TED talks on technology, pandemics, and climate change have been viewed tens of millions of times. He writes an annual letter on global development and published 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster', offering pragmatic solutions to the world's most pressing issues.
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We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic
Building a pandemic-free future won't be easy, but Bill Gates believes that we have the tools and strategies to make it possible -- now we just have to fund them. In this forward-looking talk, he proposes a multi-specialty Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team that would detect potential outbreaks and stop them from becoming pandemics. By investing in disease monitoring, research and development as well as improved health systems, Gates believes we can "create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life -- a life free from the fear of the next COVID-19."
The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster
How the pandemic will shape the near future
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How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic
The next outbreak? We're not ready
Teachers need real feedback
How state budgets are breaking US schools
Innovating to zero!
Mosquitos, malaria and education
We're Not Ready for the Next Outbreak
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