Gates Foundation Grant Supports Global Health Project
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a grant of nearly $900,000 for the Global Health Delivery Project, a collaboration among Brigham and Women’s Hospital and four other Harvard-affiliated institutions. Funds will be used to develop a range of management tools to support implementation of large-scale HIV prevention programs and their application to other public health efforts globally. Dissemination of findings will take place through events at Harvard Business School, the International AIDS Society and www.GHDonline.org, a Web site developed by the Global Health Delivery Project to promote collaboration and sharing of resources among practitioners in resource-limited settings.
The work will build on the Gates Foundation’s $338 million Avahan project, launched in 2003, to expand significantly targeted HIV prevention programs in six states in India.
“The Global Health Delivery Project, with its wealth of resources, is uniquely positioned to support the Gates Foundation’s efforts,” said Rebecca Weintraub, MD, executive director of Global Health Delivery Project. “We welcome the opportunity to work with the Foundation and to contribute important new knowledge to the field.”
Ashok Alexander, director of the Avahan India AIDS Initiative, said, “This project holds huge potential for capturing and disseminating important lessons about how to implement prevention programs for large, high-risk groups. We are very enthused about this partnership.”