No mother or child dies of a preventable cause
Where you're born shouldn't determine whether you survive being born. Yet today, the gap between maternal and child mortality rates in the global South and North remains stark — not because we lack solutions, but because we haven't prioritized them. We're working to close that gap for good, with a goal of halving child mortality again by 2045.
Vaccines remain the single best investment in global health. We're funding discovery, scale, and delivery of immunizations that protect children before and after birth. And since malnutrition underlies half of all child deaths, we're funding research that could reshape how the world addresses it.
A new $2.5 million commitment targets five chronically neglected areas of women's health: obstetric and maternal care, nutrition during pregnancy, gynecological health, contraceptive options, and STI treatment. Conditions like pre-eclampsia — common, poorly understood, and often deadly in low-resource settings — are finally getting the research attention they deserve.
