Request for Applications: Round 14 of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Initiative

Request for Applications:  Round 14 of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Initiative The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting applications for Round 14 of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which seeks innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing global health and development problems. Great ideas come from everywhere, and grants have been awarded for over 990 projects in over 50 countries to date. Applications are being accepted September 8 – November 12, 2014. Visit www.grandchallenges.org to submit a simple, online, two-page application for the topics listed below. Topics for Grand Challenges Explorations Round 14: • Enabling Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments: We seek new solutions that promote the use of mobile phone-based payments by smaller merchants, service providers, and others serving the poor. • Reducing Childhood Deaths from Pneumonia: We seek new ways to reduce pneumonia fatalities through timely, effective treatment of children. • Reducing Malaria Transmission by Outdoor Mosquitoes: We seek to reduce malaria parasite transmission that occurs by mosquito bites outdoors, which is not addressed by the insecticide treated nets and indoor sprays that are effective in preventing transmission within houses at night. • Supporting New Mosquito-control Approaches: We seek new ways to capture and test mosquitos and grow th...
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