
Alexa Mikhail
Senior Health and Wellness Reporter at Fortune
Senior Health + Wellness Reporter @FortuneMagazine | Prev: @CNN @CNNPlus | Words: health/gender @19thNews @washingtonpost @GMA | alum @medillschool | She/her
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4 days ago |
yahoo.com | Alexa Mikhail
The world of philanthropy is abuzz this week following the Gates Foundation’s announcement Thursday that it will ramp up its spending to $200 billion over a 20-year period—then close its doors at the end of 2045. Bill Gates told Fortune that the commitment will help the foundation eradicate or dramatically reduce the world’s deadliest diseases and cut maternal and child mortality rates to a fraction of what they are.
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6 days ago |
rsn.org | Alexa Mikhail
ALSO SEE: Pien Huang | Former CDC Staff Warn of 'A Five-Alarm Fire' Bill Gates is shocked. After a friendly dinner this past winter at Mar-a-Lago with incoming President Donald J.
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6 days ago |
fortune.com | Alexa Mikhail |Joey Abrams
“I’m ready to set more of an agenda here in the United States,” Melinda French Gates told Fortune. MERON MENGHISTAB for Fortune
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6 days ago |
flipboard.com | Alexa Mikhail |Joey Abrams
NowNew York CNN — When Bill and Melinda French Gates created the Gates Foundation in 2000, they had planned for the organization to continue its work, using their remaining fortune, for several decades after they died. But now, the billionaire Microsoft founder says he doesn’t want to wait that long to …
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6 days ago |
fortune.com | Alexa Mikhail
The autopsy of a baby is horrible to behold, but it’s a practice that serves an essential purpose at the Wits Vaccines & Infectious Diseases Analytics (Wits-VIDA) Research Unit. In a region where more than one in 20 children die before they reach the age of 5, this basic act of investigation is an affirmation of the child’s humanity.
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