Humanosphere

• Gates Foundation polio chief on eradication dance: Two steps forward, one step back

  Children disabled by polio begging in Abuja Mike Urban On the whole, there’s been a lot of good news lately about the global campaign to eradicate polio — a significant reduction in reported cases so far this year, new money … Read More

• The slowly bleeding and diminished champion of global health, WHO
• New website continues poverty porn debate

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• Gates Foundation CEO describes how measuring polio is key to ending it

  

  Bill Gates issued his annual letter for 2013 today, in which he makes the case for measurement as a critical tool to fighting poverty, disease and inequality. The call for better measurement and evaluation within the aid and development community … Read More

• Bill Gates talks metrics and spills the beans on his annual letter

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• Washington Post Q & A with Bill Gates: 'Death is something we understand extremely well'

  The Washington Post’s chief policy wonk blogger Ezra Klein has published his conversation with Bill Gates about global health. Most of the discussion is focused on exploring how the Gates Foundation attempts to use data and better metrics to improve … Read More

• Bill Gates on 60 Minutes
• Bill Gates' humanitarian plan for world (vaccination) domination

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• Celebrated data guru Hans Rosling admits he doesn't like data

  The Guardian reports that Hans Rosling, the celebrated scientist who has made data cool, doesn’t actually like data that much: “I don’t like it. My interest is not data, it’s the world. And part of world development you can see … Read More

• Hans Rosling on population growth, poverty and saving lives
• Hans Rosling on why he likes the world's 8 anti-poverty goals (hint: the MDGs)

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