Grand Challenges in Global Health

Grand Challenges in Global Health website

The Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative was established to support scientific and technological research that addresses critical scientific challenges in global health and increased research on diseases that cause millions of deaths in the developing world. An extensive consultation was undertaken to define the challenges that would be addressed. The program is administered by The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) under a $200 Million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Goals against which it is funding grants are: To improve childhood vaccines; To create new vaccines; To control insects that transmit agents of disease; To improve nutrition to promote health (including to "Create a full range of optimal, bioavailable nutrients in a single staple plant species."); To improve drug treatment of infectious diseases (including to "Discover drugs and delivery systems that minimize the likelihood of drug resistant micro-organisms."); To cure latent and chronic infections; and To measure disease and health status accurately and economically in developing countries.