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Bill Gates Q&A: The Challenges of Running the Gates Foundation
July 1, 2008
Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates talked with Seattle Times reporters Benjamin J. Romano and Kristi Heim in the days before he moves full time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Here are edited excerpts of his remarks about the foundation.
Q: In what way do you want to influence your foundation by your more active involvement there?
Gates: Well, the basic framework of what the foundation focuses on is not changing at all. We picked global health as our biggest thing, and then global development, and then in U.S. focus on education and scholarships and libraries. ... So I'll just have a lot more time to go to classrooms, go to places where these diseases are, to meet with the research scientists thinking about these diseases, reach out to potential partners, whether it's rich world governments, or pharmaceutical companies, or anybody who cares about these topics.
© 2008 The Seattle Times Company
For full article, visit:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008025740_webgatesfoundqa29.html
category: Member Organization News : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 3 July 2008
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