Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists”: Saving Lives with Data
Thea Norman, senior program officer in quantitative sciences at the Gates Foundation, discusses a call “for projects that bring together global health experts and data scientists into teams to dig into rich data sets to answer the toughest questions about maternal, child, and newborn health in India. … This data challenge is sponsored by Grand Challenges-India, a partnership with [the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)] and the Gates Foundation, and the Gates Foundation’s knowledge integration initiative, known as Ki,” which promotes data-driven solutions to maternal, newborn, and child health issues (7/25).