The Wellcome Trust is an independent, global charitable foundation supporting research projects in the areas of infectious diseases, climate and health, and mental health. In the field of infectious diseases, the Trust’s focus is on developing an improved understanding of disease reservoirs, environmental zoonotic threats, and drug resistance, as well as supporting the creation of a data and surveillance architecture to better detect and improve escalation.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s global health efforts are focused on three strategic priorities: preventing child and maternal deaths, controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and combating infectious diseases. Among others, the latter covers malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases pandemic influenza.
Unitaid is a global health agency engaged in finding innovative solutions to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases more quickly, more affordably and effectively, in low- and middle-income countries. Their work includes funding initiatives to address diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, as well as HIV co-infections and co-morbidities such as cervical cancer and hepatitis C, and cross-cutting areas, such as fever management.
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is the international cooperation agency within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, working with local communities across the world to promote healthy lifestyles and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases. It also supports the prevention, treatment and research on communicable diseases such as malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and HIV/AIDS.
The Rockefeller Foundation has long been a pioneer in global health, leading campaigns to eradicate hookworm disease, malaria and yellow fever in the first half of the twentieth century, and funding research into vaccine development. Having shifted its approach in the 1970s, moving away from campaigns against a single disease towards multidisciplinary efforts, the US-based Foundation helps developing countries across the world with community health, environmental issues and other major challenges.
The RIGHT Foundation is a South Korea-based public-private partnership (PPP) between the Government of Korea (GOK), Korean Life Science companies, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Dedicated to supporting global health R&D, it provides a platform for catalysing collaboration between Korean and international researchers to develop vaccines, treatments and diagnostics for infectious diseases (both endemic and emerging) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Open Philanthropy started as a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures and has operated as an independent organisation since 2017. Global Health and Wellbeing is a key focus area of Open Philanthropy investment, and includes support to research on malaria.
Within the health portfolio, the Norwegian Agency for International Development Cooperation (Norad) has a mandated focus on reducing health inequities and reaching the poorest and most marginalised communities with development aid.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary US federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research. One particular area of concern within NIH’s work on infectious diseases is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) with a focus on finding new diagnostics that can quickly detect resistance and new antibiotic drugs and vaccines to prevent and treat bacterial infections.
The Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (BZ) of The Netherlands has committed to enhance its efforts in global health, having established a Dutch Global Health Strategy. The focus will be on strengthening health systems across the world and international cooperation in preparation for future pandemics.