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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jun 6, 2019, 10:09 AM Jun 2019

Emory University receives $180 million grant from Gates Foundation

Emory University announced its largest ever one-time research grant on Thursday, a $180 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will fund analyses aimed at lowering child mortality rates in some of the world’s poorest communities.

The grant money is earmarked for the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance network (CHAMPS), which analyzes data to help identify and better understand the causes of child mortality in children under 5 years old. The latest donation will bring the foundation’s total investment in CHAMPS to $271 million over a 10-year-period.

Launched in 2015, CHAMPS has established sites in seven countries — Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and South Africa, with plans to add a sites in India and another location yet to be determined.

The program network includes a diverse group of research institutes, universities and ministries of health.

Read more: https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/health/emory-university-receives-180-million-grant-from-gates-foundation/wlQPe7foKc0ghWoUehrUXL/

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Emory University receives $180 million grant from Gates Foundation (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP
President Carter has been on the faculty there for decades. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2019 #1

Rhiannon12866

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1. President Carter has been on the faculty there for decades.
Thu Jun 6, 2019, 11:51 AM
Jun 2019

This sounds exactly like his kind of initiative.

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