University of
Washington School of Medicine


Dec. 17, 1999

Finding effective systems for distributing existing and future vaccines within the poorest countries of the world could profoundly reduce childhood death and disability, according to speakers at the Global Health Forum Dec. 9 at the UW Health Sciences Center.
A Webcast of the forum can be downloaded from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Web site :

http://www.gatesfoundation.org


Graca Machel, former minister of education for Mozambique, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates

William Foege, global health senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Foege is a 1961 graduate of the UW School of Medicine.

Seth Berkley, president of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Bill Gates and Nelson Mandela, a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Fredrik Willem De Klerk in 1993.

Photos courtesy of Gates Foundation.


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