Health and Healthcare Systems
This is what we need to beat malaria for good
National and regional programs will drive global eradication from the bottom up.
Trevor Mundel
Bachelor's and MD, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; studies in Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy, and Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, University of Oxford; PhD in Mathematics, University of Chicago. 2011, joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; currently, President, Global Health Program; leads efforts in research and development of health solutions including vaccines, drugs and diagnostics, focusing on health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding; oversees the Global Health Program's work, which harnesses innovations in science and technology to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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