Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Health Program
The Foundation was established in 1994 as the William H. Gates Foundation, and
renamed as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999. The institution aims to
globally improve healthcare and reduce poverty and, in the USA, to increase
educational opportunities and access to information technology. Its programmes
are subdivided into four main areas: Global Health, Poverty and Development,
Education and Information, Special Programmes.
The Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, comprises: the
Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization, the Institute for One World Health,
the Children’s Vaccine Programme, the University of Washington Department of
Global Health, HIV Research, Areas Global TB Vaccine Foundation. The main
purpose of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program is to allow
advances in health to reach those populations that need them most, in particular
people living in poorest countries. The two main principles of its strategy are:
accelerating access to health interventions and new technologies; aupporting
research of new vaccines, drugs and other health tools, with a primary interest in
neglected diseases and in those issues affecting primarily poor countries (malaria,
tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, nutrition problems, acute diarrheas illness, immunization,
acute lower respiratory infections, reproductive and maternal health, newborn and
child health, other infectious diseases).
The Foundation is engaged in supporting efforts to build awareness of global health
issues, developing documents and scientific material. The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation tries also to help leading relief organizations to respond appropriately to
disasters which require special interventions.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
Brocher Foundation
The Brocher Foundation started its works in 2003, by initiative of Dr. Jaques E.W.
Brocher and his wife. It was created as a private non-profit foundation of public
interest. The main goals of this Swiss private law foundation are: to permit to
scientific researchers to have a place to work and to hold scientific meetings,
encouraging interdisciplinary activities and connections among ethics, law and
medicine and investigating the implications of the development of research and new
technologies. Its role in society is to be and communicate as an interface by
addressing public instances, academic world, organizations and media.
The main programmes of the Brocher Foundation are concentrated in the ethical,
legal and societal implications of biotechnologies for human beings and their
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