print email comment close Backgrounder: Global Health and the Gates Foundation URL: http://www.cfr.org/publication/11004/global_health_and_the_gates_foundation.html Description: Concise facts about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2006 received a gift of $30 billion that "roughly double[d] the size of what was already the world's largest private philanthropic endowment." Discusses the gift from Warren Buffet, the effectiveness of the Gates Foundation in the global health field, potential challenges and expanded areas of focus, and the impact of private foundations on global welfare. From the Council on Foreign Relations. Author: McMahon, Robert Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations LII Database Information: Record 22016 created by Jennifer English on 07/06/2006 Last modification on 07/11/2006 Published: 07/13/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22016